The Puritans’ Quest for Utopia in New England

History 103
Sept. 14, 1998

Puritanism as a Cultural System

English Reformation

John Calvin

Puritan Precepts

Gulf between God and individual

Justification (salvation) by faith alone

Predestination

Calling

Conversion experience

Covenant

Planting Plymouth

Pilgrim separatists

From starving time to stability

Absorption into Massachusetts Bay

Making Massachusetts Bay

Charter

Democratic form, religious basis of government

Signs of success

Expulsions: Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson

Declension

Jeremiad

Puritan Revolution in England

Worldly temptations

Conversion crisis

King Philip’s War, 1675-76

Causes

Consequences

Toward Integration into the British Empire

Revocation of original charter (1684)

Dominion of New England (1686-89)

Glorious Revolution in England (1688) and New England (1689)

New charter (1691)

Salem witchcraft crisis (1692)