HIST 2055 Chapter : Chapter 2 New England
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Expansion and conflic: new england"s growing population, needed more land for children to start families, thomas hooker, led a group of massachusetts settlers in. English church: puratins were alarmed, john winthrop leads puritans to new. America: john winthrop, first governor of the massachusetts bay. Puritan theology accorded women: thought only john cotton preached the true calvanist way, which was that only. God"s grace alone could bring about salvation: was banished from massachusetts bay. Colony: puritans on the other side of the atlantic, political struggle with king charles i, led to civil war in 1642, parliament tried the king for crimes against his people and executed him in.