New Englanders Divided

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New Englanders Divided

• 2.5

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Puritan Values

• Emphasis on conformity
• Intolerance to individualism dissent
• Banishment

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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Balance of Power

• Buy land or take land?
• Settlers have numbers
• Indians lack central govt

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View of Indians

• Savages
• Dangerous temptation
• Obstacle to be removed

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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

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Results

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