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