John Calvin (1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Calvin insisted the doctrine of predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation. Puritans are English Protestants in the late 16th who wanted their church, the Anglican church, to follow the Calvinist model more closely and give up the remnant of Catholicism. Among those Puritans there was a group of people who lost faith in the Anglican church, decided to abandon it, separated themselves from it. These became Separatists(Pilgrim). Pilgrims took the Mayflower to come to America to practice religious freedom. …show more content…
Roger Williams was an ordained minister who believed that Native Americans were also human and should be treated same. This belief was opposite to other Puritans’s so he was exiled and eventually went to Rhode island. Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15 children, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Even though it was not allowed for her to hold religious events since Anne was a woman, she had meetings and discussed the finer points of religion. She was trialled and banished from the colony with many of her supporters. Anne landed in Long Island. John Wheelwright, another dissenter left the colony and started a colony that became New Hampshire later. Thomas Hooker was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader but had had different views and beliefs from the other puritans. He headed west, set the colony of Hartford in 1636, latter to become Connecticut. In consequence of Puritan’s intolerance of these dissenters triggered settlement new colonies in New England area.
When the Separatists saw the demise of the Native American tribes, probably due to disease, the Puritans interpreted it as the punishment from God. Separatists and Puritan thought the Native Americans were inferior and not equal at