Puritan Life

● Do Now
● Puritan Life and Dissent Newsela Reading
Do Now:
Using the pictures below, answer the questions that follows:

1. What event does this picture depict?

-The compact signing
2. What group did the people in it belong to?
-They belong to the puramins
3. What do you think this picture says about their society?
-that the man will control the society
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As you read the Newsela article assigned, answer the following. Note: Each question
appears in the order you would find it in the article.

Massachusett Bay - “The City Upon a Hill”

1. Why did the Puritans want to come to America?
-Thy came to explore,make money,to spred and practice their religion freely
2. What role did John Winthrop have in the Massachusett Bay colony?
-Govner and we wrote call “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us”
3. What do you think Winthrop means when he says “we shall be as a city upon a hill, the
eyes of all people are upon us”?
-I think he means that they will rule and if people don’t obey him then their sins will be exposed
to the world
4. What did the Puritans believe about God?
-They believed that predestination which taught that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. So,
each person is known to God at birth and nothing a person does or says could change his
future. Not everyone could be a Puritan Church member. Only those chosen by God to be
saved would become "the elect". Only "the elect" could serve as Church members. A person
must experience "conversion" by seeing and feeling the grace and power of God and know he
was saved. 

5. Could everyone be a Puritan? What role did non-Puritans play in society?

Puritan Life
- Massachusetts Bay was a man's world, so women could not speak at town meetings or vote.
Puritan ministers preached about the soul that had two parts. The part that lived forever was
male, while the female part did not. They believed women who were pregnant with a male child
had pink cheeks, and those having a female child had pale cheeks. Names of women included
Patience, Silence, Fear, Comfort and Be Fruitful, which shows what Puritans thought about
women. 

6. About how many Puritans came to Massachusett in the first few years?
-14,000
7. Why was it said that New England “invented grandparents”?
- they said that because it was here that people in great numbers first grew old enough to see
their children have children.

8. What role did women play in Puritan society?

-Women had babies
9. What would happen if people didn’t go to church in a Puritan community?
-They had to pay fines if they missed a service
10. How did Puritans make sure people took church services seriously while they were
there?
-Man held a long pole to wake people up or push kids if they were laughed
Puritan Dissent
11. What would happen to people who sinned in a Puritan society?
-Punished :put in jail, whipped, spit on or killed
12. Who was Roger Willaims? What did he believe?
- Roger Williams preached separation of church and state. He believed no single church should
get money from tax dollars. 

13. Why did Williams start the colony of Rhode Island?

- Williams bought some land from the Narragansett Indians and founded the colony of Rhode
Island. Here there would be complete religious freedom. 

14. Who was Anne Hutchinson? What did she believe?

- Anne Hutchinson was a deeply religious woman. She believed in predestination, which taught
that God is all-powerful and all-knowing.

15. Where did Anne Hutchinson move? Why did she move here?
- The ministers decided to arrest her. The court, led by John Winthrop, the governor of the
colony, found her guilty and banished her from Massachusetts Bay in 1637. So she moved to
Rhode Island.  

16. What did the Puritans do to have fun?

-  People sang and told stories. They drank wine and beer. Children were allowed to play games
with their parents' permission. Puritans did not all dress in black as many believe. They tried to
follow God's law. People that did what the ministers said, lived in peace.