1. K. Dinkelacker H. Khuram E. Samuel Block 3
Dissenters
K. Dinkelacker
H. Khuram
E. Samuel
Block 3

2. Key Words Dissenters Anne Hutchinson Antinomian Controversy
Religious Freedom
Roger Williams
The Puritans
Massachusetts Bay
Portsmouth Rhode island
Narrangsett Indians
John Winthrop
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

3. Portrait of Anne Marbury Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson ( )
Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan woman who spread her own interpretations on the Bible which angered the magistrates.
Anne Hutchinson was a dissenter in the Massachusetts Bay colony who caused a schism in the Puritan community.
Started the Antinomian controversy ( )
Portrait of Anne Marbury Hutchinson

4. Cont.
She was banished from Boston in 1637 because of her religious and feminist beliefs
She fled to a Rhode Island Colony called Portsmouth
She died in a massacre in 1643 in which Anne and her children were killed by local Tribesmen.

5. Roger Williams (1603-1683) Extreme Separatist
Believed government and religion should be completely separate.
Condemned the Bay Colony’s charter
Bay Colony authorities found William guilty of spreading new rebellious ideas
Banished in 1636

6. Cont. Founded Rhode Island Colonies
Colony governed by religious liberty and separation of church and state
Demanded no oaths regarding beliefs.
No taxes to support a state church.
Founded first Baptist church in America
Rhode Island more liberal than any other English settlement in New World.

7. Thomas Hooker ( )
Thomas Hooker believed in laws based on the people
Thrown out of Massachusetts Bay due to him disagreeing
Believed the government had too much power and the people didn’t
“Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.”

8. Thomas Hooker Cont. Founded the Connecticut Colony in 1639
Voiced democratic principles
Overview of colony
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

9. Conclusion
Anne Hutchinson is an important historical figure because she was a woman who spoke her mind openly about her radical beliefs.
Roger Williams was known to be revolutionary because he founded Rhode Island which stood on religious freedom and separation from government.
Thomas Hooker was so revolutionary due to finding the Connecticut colony & inspired and enforced the Fundamentals of Order of Connecticut

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