Puritans Flashcards
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Congregationalists
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Wanted to reform Anglican Church from within: unsuccessful
Ex/ Massachusetts Bay Colony
2
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Separatists/Pilgrims
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Formed independent congregations with their own ministers
- fled from England to escape persecution
- England-Holland-Plymouth Colony 1620
3
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Massachusetts Bay Company
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1629 John Winthrop “City Upon a Hill”
- self government
- 1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Eventually included Plymouth Colony
4
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Founding of Providence
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- Roger Williams extreme separatist banished: individual conscience
- believed in separation of church and state, religious freedom
- 1636 Colony of Providence
5
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Anne Hutchinson
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- dissenter
- “worshippers don’t need neither the church nor its ministers to interpret the Bible”
- banished 1638
- asylum religious toleration
6
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King Philip’s War
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- Native Americans + King Philip vs. Puritans 1675
- Native Americans lost
- King Philip’s head was a prize
7
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Puritans
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Purify Anglican Church…dislikes the complex hierarchy
-religious dissenters; Calvinists
