American Colinists- Radical rebels or seekers of freedom?
...olding religious meetings in her home, she also questioned the religious authority of colony ministers. She believed women should have more power, because of this, in 1637 she was sent to trial for heresy. Being a woman in that time period she barely had a chance to dispute the charges, and was forced to leave the colony. After being banished from her colony she moved to Rhode Island. Thomas Hooker was one of the more powerful rebellious colonists; he was head of the English church. Thomas Hooker arrived in Massachusetts in 1633. He wasn’t satisfied with the way Winthrop and the Puritans led the congregation. He had the idea that he would start a colony that would be like the “godly”. He wanted to give all men the opportunity to vote. So in 1636 he led 100 people from the congregation through the wilderness to Connecticut and made a settlement which is now called Hartford. Then he joined with two other settlements owned by Windsor and Wethersfield to make a colony that used the Fundamental orders of Connecticut. Peter Stuyvesant unlike some other rebels was a leader. He was governor of New Amsterdam (present day New York). Peter Stuyvesant was different from the other rebels because he was against religious freedom. In New Amsterdam he was extremely harsh about religion even after Holland granted municipal government to him. Soon after the municipal government he lost his Connecticut territory in 1650 but promptly expanded by conquering New Sweden in 1655. ...