Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)

Question 1

Puritans

Answer 1

Anne Hutchinson. Anglican church of England. Believed church needed to be simplified. conversion: the moment when a Puritan begins to feel the stirrings of grace in their souls.

Question 2

Predestination

Answer 2

Anne Hutchinson. John Calvin: God predetermines who will go to heaven and who will not, there is nothing in life that you can do to change that.

Question 3

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 3

Anne Hutchinson. populated by the pilgrims. Puritans believed that the Anglican Church could be reformed by example. 1629-1630.

Question 4

John Winthrop

Answer 4

Anne Hutchinson. Preacher. believed democracy was the meanest and worst form of government. Believed that freedom was your ability to surrender your will to God.

Question 5

“A Model of Christian Charity”

Answer 5

Anne Hutchinson. 1630. A famous sermon preached by John Winthrop. Talked about the entire world seeing what you did. and that God will smite you.

Question 6

Doctrine of “Just Price”

Answer 6

Anne Hutchinson. making a small profit was okay, but to much profit was sinful.

Question 7

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 7

Anne Hutchinson. Born in England in 1591. 1 of 13 kids. father was a rebellious pastor of the Anglican Church. Believed male and female kids deserved a rigorous and spiritual upbringing. has 15 kids of her own. 3 die in plague in 1630. Begins to lead conventicles. believed she was getting direct revelations from God. her trial began 1637. no lawyer. convicted of countenancing and encouraging the sowers of sedition. Excommunicated and sentenced to banishment. her, her husband, and 80 followers leave the next spring for Narragansett Bay.

Question 8

William Hutchinson

Answer 8

Anne Hutchinson. Anne’s Husband. a young merchant on the rise. Leaves with Anne when banished.

Question 9

Society of Deference

Answer 9

Anne Hutchinson. Everybody has a place in the world. Started with the King, then went to the lords they owed deference to the king.

Question 10

Coverture

Answer 10

Anne Hutchinson. when a woman marries a man she merges in to the legal identity of a man. her property and property rights goes to the husband automatically.

Question 11

Conventicles

Answer 11

Private gatherings where people came together to discuss and debate the scripture and pray. frowned upon by the Anglican Church.

Question 12

John Wilson

Answer 12

Leading Minister in Puritan New England
•Stressed the need for “preparation for grace”
•Sanctification – living a godly life day to day
•Outward behavior could be taken as sign
•Sinners would eventually crack.

Question 13

Doctrine of Preparationism/ Covenant of Works

Answer 13

• The idea that there were steps one could take to get in a proper frame of mind so that one could be fully receptive to sanctification if it were forthcoming
• Critics called this a “covenant of works”

Question 14

5th commandment

Answer 14

•The 5th commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties belonging to every one in their various positions and relationships as superiors.

Question 15

Roger Williams

Answer 15

• Puritan dissenter
• Believes clergy in MA Bay have too much power and too much faith in “good works”
• Founds Providence in 1636
• Believed you had to pay Indians for their land
• Separation of church and state
• Freedom of worship