Chapter 2.4: The New England Colonies

John Winthrop

led larger group of Puritans to America, exhorted them to make their new colony "A City Upon a Hill"

Anne Hutchinson

seemed doubly dangerous because she was a woman, only men were able to exercise public influence.

Puritans

English Protestants who believed in strict religious discipline and the simplification of worship; settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Pilgrims

English Puritans who sought religious freedom and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620

Roger Williams

argued that settlers had no right to take land from the Indians, said they had to purchase it, founded Providence (Rhode Island)

Pequot War

between English and Pequot Indians

King Phillips' War

conflict between English colonists and Native Americans in New England

Mayflower Compact

framework for self-governement of the Plymouth Colony signed on the ship the Mayflower in 1620.

Separatists

groups who wished to separate from the Anglican Church to begin their own churches