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Title: New Englanders Divided


1
New Englanders Divided
  • 2.5

2
Puritan Values
  • Emphasis on conformity
  • Intolerance to individualism dissent
  • Banishment

3
Roger Williams
  • Critique of status quo
  • w/draw from Church of England
  • Separate church state
  • Follow conscience/ faith is voluntary
  • Puritans not Gods special favorites
  • Aim to strengthen religion
  • 1636 Banished

4
Rhode Island
  • Beacon of religious freedom
  • No est. church
  • No religious qual. for voting
  • No mandatory church attendance
  • Safe for Dissenters, Jews, Catholics
  • Government more democratic
  • Assembly twice a year
  • Gov. yearly
  • Frequent town meetings

5
Connecticut
  • Religious disagreements in MA
  • 1636 minister T. Hooker est. Hartford
  • Fundamental Orders of 1639
  • govt modeled on MA
  • Didnt have to be church member to vote
  • 1638 New Haven
  • Even closer connection between church state
  • 1662 royal charter combined the two

6
Ann Hutchinson
  • Challenge to Puritan leadership in MA
  • Church wrong to focus on attendance behavior
    saints
  • Challenge to gender norms
  • Trial Banishment (1637)
  • Divine revelation
  • Quakers inner light
  • Persecution (1660)

7
Balance of Power
  • Buy land or take land?
  • Settlers have numbers
  • Indians lack central govt

8
View of Indians
  • Savages
  • Dangerous temptation
  • Obstacle to be removed

9
Pequot War 1637
  • Several CT settlers killed
  • Troops from CT MA w/ Narragansetts attack
    village at Mystic
  • Set it on fire / kill those fleeing
  • 500 men, women, children
  • Last months
  • Pequot exterminated

10
Results
  • CT River Valley opened to settlement
  • Indians intimidated
  • Affirmation of Puritan sense of mission
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