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