The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz

Edmund Morgan

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Chapter 1, The Taming of the Heart

Chapter 2, Evil and Declining Times

Chapter 3, A Shelter and a Hiding Place

Chapter 4, The Way to a New England

Chapter 5, Survival

Chapter 6, A Special Commission

Chapter 7, A Due Form of Government

Chapter 8, Leniency Rebuked

Chapter 9, Separatism Unleashed

Chapter 10, Seventeenth-Century Nihilism

Chapter 11, The New England Way

Chapter 12, New England or Old

Chapter 13, Foreign Affairs

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The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz

The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz

What newcomer to the colony in 1646 attempted to organize the discontented in appealing to Parliament for a Presbyterian Massachusetts, according to the author in Chapter 13: “Foreign Affairs”?

At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?

The king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company ordained that the freemen of the company were to meet how many times per year in a “Great and General Court”?

Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?

Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?