She believed that a person could worship god without help of a Church, Minister, or Bible.
She believed that a person could worship god without help of a Church, minister, or Bible.
Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts. She challenged the doctrine of the Puritan ministers around her, and she was a charismatic speaker with a lot of followers herself. The challenges she posed eventually lead to a big belief controversy in the Massachusetts Bay colony. Hutchinson was tried and convicted of heresy, excommunicated from the church, and forced out of Massachusetts. She and her followers eventually established a new colony that would eventually become Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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The Puritan government relied on a single belief system in the colony to keep their influence and power. Anne Hutchinson and her followers did not conform to the system and threatened that power.
Massachusetts before she was forced to leave
They didn't support the New England Way, therefore they were forced to leave.
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Hutchinson was forced into exile and she went to Rhode Island.
Massachusetts.
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson founded Rhode Island. They founded Rhode Island because of the religious tension in Massachusetts. They were both forced out of Massachusetts. Roger Williams was forced out because he believed that you didn't need to worship god in a certain way, you just needed to worship him in your way. Anne Hutchinson was forced out because she told the colonists that she spoke to God and he told her to tell them which preachers they should listen to. She told them which Preachers were speaking the true word of God
She was forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Anne Hutchinson, who was known as the most famous English woman in American history, was banished from the puritan Massachusetts BayÊColony and settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and later died at 52 inÊwhat is now theÊBronx, New York.