the protestant reformation produces puritanism martin luther 1517 –denounced the authority of the...
TRANSCRIPT
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
• Martin Luther 1517– Denounced the authority of the priests and popes – Bible alone was the source of God's words
• John Calvin 1536– Institutes of the Christian Religion Calvinism
• King Henry VIII 1534– Broke ties with the Roman Catholic Church
– Minority that wanted taking Catholicism out of England to occur
faster Puritans• Minority of Puritans Separatists or Pilgrims
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
• Pilgrim leaders drew up and signed the Mayflower Compact– A simple agreement to form a basic government
and to submit to the will of the majority• Signed by 41 adult males
– It was the:
first attempt at a government in America
• “Starving Time”– In the Pilgrims' first winter of 1620-1621, only 44 of
the 102 survived
(signed by the “gentlemen”)
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage
at Plymouth
• Separatists in Holland came to America in search for their religious freedom
• Settled outside of VA– Settled in Plymouth
Bay in 1620 (Without legal permission)
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
• In 1629, Puritans (non-Separatist), fearing for their faith and for England's future, secured a royal charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Company Massachusetts Bay Colony
• During the Great Migration of the 1630s, about 15-20,000 refugees left England for New England
Great (Puritan) Migration
John Winthrop
• Governor of MBC• (“Massachusetts Bible
Commonwealth”)
• Believed that the Puritans had a covenant with God to build a holy society in the New World
“We shall be as a city upon a hill”
“City Upon a Hill”
JFK