Why was Anne Hutchinson exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 1

Anne Hutchinson was born in England, the daughter of a clergyman. As such, she had certain religious beliefs. She came to America in 1734 with her family, following John Cotton, a persecuted religious leader in England. She settled in Massachusetts, a Puritan colony at the time. She had very different, more tolerant religious ideas, and she spoke her mind about them. She also held meetings in her home primarily attended by women. Because of this, she was severely breaking the gender norms of the day, when women were not really supposed to take such authority as she did. Governor Winthrop therefore hated her, excommunicated her from the Puritan church, and exiled Anne and her family from Massachusetts. They then settled in Rhode Island where they were killed by a local Native American tribe.

Answer 2

Hutchinson was an anitnomian, a Christian who believes that all you need to get into "heaven" is "divine grace." That conflicted so sharply with Puritan belief that it was a threat to the government and she was banished.

Answer 3

In 1637 John Winthrop, who had replaced Vane as governor, put Hutchinson on trial for heresy. He charged her with violating the Bible's commandment to "honor thy father and mother," arguing that Hutchinson had undermined the fathers of the church with her preaching. Although Hutchinson ably defended herself in court, she wasbanished from the colony as being unfit for society.

Answer 4

because she challenged the prevailing assumptions of the proper role of women in society..

Answer 5

because she died