USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -When dissenters, including Puritan minister Roger Williams and midwife Anne Hutchinson, challenged Governor Winthrop in Massachusetts Bay in the 1630s, they both were banished from the colony.

Detailed explanation-2: -Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Puritans were considered dissenters because they did not agree with what they saw as Catholic practices permeating the Church of England. They believed that such rituals interfered with people’s relationship with God. The Puritans further clashed with the Church of England over the issue of membership.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first group of Puritans to make their way across the Atlantic was a small contingent known as the Pilgrims. Unlike other Puritans, they insisted on a complete separation from the Church of England and had first migrated to the Dutch Republic seeking religious freedom.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1630, the Puritans set sail for America. Unlike the Pilgrims who had left 10 years earlier, the Puritans did not break with the Church of England, but instead sought to reform it.