USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What did Anne Hutchinson believe? Anne Hutchison believed that an individual’s intuition is a guide for achieving salvation and that adhering too closely to beliefs taught by ministers places salvation on one’s deeds (“the covenant of works” as she expressed it) rather than one’s faith (“the covenant of grace”).

Detailed explanation-2: -Anne Hutchinson was a leader in religious dissent in the Massachusetts colony, nearly causing a major schism in the colony before she was expelled. She’s considered a major figure in the history of religious freedom in America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anne Hutchinson (née Marbury; July 1591 – August 1643) was a Puritan spiritual advisor, religious reformer, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy which shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hutchinson’s views and her growing reputation as a leader–when women were not allowed to speak or teach in public–were understood as a threat to the stability of the small colony by Puritan officials, notably Governor John Winthrop.