PURITAN NEW ENGLAND

Puritans and Pilgrims Pilgrims wanted to

separate completely from Church of England (Separatists)

Fled to Holland and eventually America (Plymouth Colony)

Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop led more Puritans to

New England Established colony with capital at Boston Plymouth incorporated into it “City Upon a Hill”

Puritans & Religious Freedom: Not So Much

Puritan laws criminalized Leaders were all members of Puritan

Church Only landholding males in the Church

could vote Dissent not tolerated

Roger Williams freedom to worship Establishes Rhode Island on

the basis of religious freedom (1636)

“Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God.”

Anne Hutchinson Individuals can interpret

the Bible on their own Banished to Rhode

Island in 1638 Took refuge in Dutch-

controlled New Netherland