Post on 05-Jan-2016
Dissent
Persecution
“A City on a Hill”
Puritans and Pilgrims
“Scrooby Separatists” – dissenters - go to Holland to live a more “pure” life on the ship “Speedwell”.
Dutch influence pollutes their purity & they leave for England again.
1620 they combine with Indentured Servants headed for Virginia on the “Mayflower”, but are forced to land at Plymouth, (now Massachusettes).
Mayflower Compact No legal right to be in Massachusettes
Fellow travellers not all
as “pious” as the Pilgrims.
Concern they would not
follow the law of England.
Civil Government formed –
loyalty to the King.
Laws established by majority vote –
Landmark document of democratic government.
Persecuted Puritans John Winthrop forms Joint Stock Company by a
“Royal Charter” – King’s authority to be in America
Massachussettes Bay Colony established with about 1000 settlers, well planned & supplied.
A true Puritan community… A City Upon a Hill…all in
England would want to imitate. Life would center around the church and its authority.
Church Controls Community
“Well ordered” families…God fearing citizens.
Close connection between church “elect” and government officials who watched family life.
Property distributed by church.
Only church members and male property owners could vote.
Dissenters in the Community
Roger Williams
Believed Natives should be
paid for land taken, and religious
freedom should be tolerated.
Founded Providence, Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
Believed people could interpret
the Bible for themselves & didn’t
need the church officials.
Native American Wars Pequot Wars….King Phillip’s War
Constant disputes
over land and expansion
Basic misunderstanding
about land ownership
Mistrust resulted from
broken treaties & swindles
Bloody wars killed thousands