1. 1. For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world, we shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God and all professors for Gods sake;- John Winthrop What does he mean by a City upon a Hill?
2. 2. The passengers of the Arbella who left England in 1630 with their new charter had a great vision. They were to be an example for the rest of the world in rightful living. By the end of the 1630s, as part of a Great Migration of Puritans out of England, nearly 14,000 more Puritan settlers came to Massachusetts, and the colony began to spread.
3. 3. There was not too much room for religious disagreement in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Their devotion to principle was Gods work; to ignore Gods work was unfathomable. When free-thinkers speak their minds in such a society, conflict inevitably results.
4. 4. Why did the Pilgrims come to the New World? What was unique about the Mayflower Compact? Where did the Pilgrims establish the Plymouth Colony?