Colonial Massachusetts: “A City Upon a Hill” or Early

American Discrimination?

I. Religion in Colonial Massachusetts

Pilgrims & Puritans Protest the Church of England

William Bradford & the Pilgrims Settle at Plymouth (1620)

John Winthrop & The Puritans Create A “City Upon A Hill” (1630)

“ For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us….”

The Puritan Church is the State: Voting, Laws and the Church

II. The Puritans Punish Non-Believers

A. Antinomianism & the Banishment of Anne Hutchinson

B. Quakers & the Hanging of Mary Dyer

The Conversion and Conquest of Native Americans: The Pequot War & Praying Towns

III. Comparing Puritans and QuakersPuritans Quakers

Where MA PA

When 1630 1681

III. Comparing Puritans and Quakers

Puritans Quakers

Leader Winthrop Penn

III. Comparing Puritans and Quakers

Puritans Quakers

Religious? Yes Yes

III. Comparing Puritans and QuakersPuritans Quakers

Ethnic/Religious Tolerance

No Yes

III. Comparing Puritans and QuakersPuritans Quakers

Equality or Hierarchy?

Hierarchy Equality