THE PURITANS' QUEST FOR UTOPIA IN NEW ENGLAND

I. Puritanism as a Cultural System

• English Reformation
• Puritan precepts:
  Gulf between God and individual
  Justification by faith alone
  Predestination
  Calling
  Conversion experience
  Covenant
  
• Division over relationship to Church of England

II. Planting Plymouth Plantation

• Pilgrim Separatists
• From starving time to stability

III. Making Massachusetts Bay

• Charter and mission
• Democratic form, religious rationale of government
• Early success
• Expulsions: Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson

IV. Declension

• Jeremiad
• Puritan Revolution (Civil War) in England
• Material temptations
• Conversion crisis and its implications

V. King Philip's War (1675-76)

VI. Toward Integration into the British Empire

• Revocation of original charter (1684)
• Dominion of New England (est, 1686)
• Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts (1689)
• New charter (1691)
• Salem witchcraft crisis (1692)