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New Englanders Divided
2.5
Puritan Values
• Emphasis on conformity
• Intolerance to individualism & dissent
• Banishment
Roger Williams
• Critique of status quo– w/draw from Church of England– Separate church & state– Follow conscience/ faith is voluntary– Puritans not God’s special favorites
• Aim to strengthen religion
• 1636 Banished
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
Connecticut
• Religious disagreements in MA• 1636 minister T. Hooker est. Hartford
– Fundamental Orders of 1639– gov’t modeled on MA– Didn’t have to be church member to vote
• 1638 New Haven– Even closer connection between church &
state
• 1662 royal charter combined the two
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)
Balance of Power
• Buy land or take land?
• Settlers have numbers
• Indians lack central govt
View of Indians
• Savages
• Dangerous temptation
• Obstacle to be removed
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
Results
• CT River Valley opened to settlement
• Indians intimidated
• Affirmation of Puritan sense of mission
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