USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1638, now accused of lying in her recantation, Anne Hutchinson was excommunicated by the Boston Church and moved with her family to Rhode Island to land purchased from the Narragansetts. They were invited by Roger Williams, who had founded the new colony as a democratic community with no enforced church doctrine.

Detailed explanation-2: -She criticized the beliefs of the Massachusetts Puritans for placing religious observance and the teaching of ministers above the conscience of the individual. After she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, she became one of the founders of Rhode Island.

Detailed explanation-3: -Considered one of the earliest American feminists, Anne Hutchinson was a spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged male authority-and, indirectly, acceptable gender roles-by preaching to both women and men and by questioning Puritan teachings about salvation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were two brave souls who reminded everyone at their own great peril of that most sacred right. Governor John Winthrop, on hearing that Anne Hutchinson and most of her children had been killed on Long Island, stated, “Proud Jezebel has at last been cast down."

Detailed explanation-5: -Hutchinson and many of her supporters established the settlement of Portsmouth, Rhode Island with encouragement from Providence Plantations founder Roger Williams in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.