Differences Among Colonies How did the differences among the colonies effect their ability to work together? Were these differences too basic to result in a union? What could enable the colonies to put these differences aside?

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Puritan Controversy To become a saint, one had to be examined by a church committee and demonstrate that he or she had experienced the presence of God and the Holy Spirit. There was no agreement among the ministers about the exact nature of the revelation.

Anne Hutchinson - Background In the cold, early spring of 1638, Anne Hutchinson and her children left Massachusetts to join her husband and their many friends who had moved to an island in Narragansett Bay near what is now Rhode Island. Just a year before, in 1637, Hutchinson and her family had been highly respected, prominent members of a Puritan church in Boston. But then she was put on trial and sentenced to banishment from the Massachusetts Bay colony and excommunication from her church—next to death, the worst punishment that could befall a Puritan in the New World.

Charges Against Anne Hutchinson Gov. Winthrop Let us state the case and then we may know what to do. That which is laid to Mrs. Hutchinson's charge is this, that she hath traduced the magistrates and ministers of this jurisdiction, that she hath said the ministers preached a covenant of works and Mr. Cotton a covenant of grace, and that they were not able ministers of the gospel, and she excuses it that she made it a private conference and with a promise of secrecy, now this is charged upon her, and they therefore sent for her seeing she made it her table talk, and then she said the fear of man was a snare and therefore she would not be affeared of them. . . .

Anne’s Response Mrs. H. If you please to give me leave I shall give you the ground of what I know to be true. Being much troubled to see the falseness of the constitution of the church of England, I had like to have turned separatist; whereupon I kept a day of solemn humiliation and pondering of the thing; this scripture was brought unto me -- he that denies Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh is antichrist31 -- This I considered of and in considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh nor we did not deny him -- who then was antichrist? . . . The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. . . . I bless the Lord, he hath let me see which was the clear ministry and which the wrong. Since that time I confess I have been more choice and he hath let me to distinguish between the voice of my beloved and the voice of Moses, the voice of John Baptist and the voice of antichrist, for all those voices are spoken of in scripture. Now if you do condemn me for speaking what in my conscience I know to be truth I must commit myself unto the Lord.

Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island Roger Williams was a minister who preached complete separation of church and state and challenged the legal basis of congregationalism. He argued that church should remain distinct from and uninvolved with political or legal matters as he believed these would corrupt the saints and contaminate their purity. He also believed that Indians should be paid for lands taken by new settlers. Prosecuted and expelled, he moved south where he established a city he named Providence, on land he purchased from Indians. By 1647, as more dissenters moved there, Providence became based on complete freedom of religion.

Salem Witch Trials History of the Salem Witch Trials

Questions on the video Why were accusations made? Who were the 1st 3 people accused? Who confessed? Why? Describe the type of people accused at the trials. Why did the accusations lose credibility?

Salem Witch Trial 1692

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