What Were Winthrop's Goals For Puritan New England?

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What were Winthrop’s goals for Puritan New England? It seems like he was trying to make a religion-based government. In the new world he helped organize all the new towns and the churches. Since he became governor he was responsible for maintaining the civic and social order of a very large group of people. He wanted the Puritans to be able to live a political and very religious life. What does Hutchinson’s trial say about these goals? She was a Puritan too, but she had her own thoughts about the religion when she was having meetings at her home. They brought her to trial because they feared her views would create anarchy. I think they were not going about their laws because they did not like how she had neighbors coming to her house for service

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