Ap Us History Dbq

King Henry VIII married Catherine, who was a devote Catholic and they had one daughter named Mary, but Henry wanted a son. Anne Boylen was a lady in waiting to the Queen, when she and Henry became very good friends, wanting more Anne convinced Henry to reach out to the Pope and get a divorce so that Anne could then marry Henry and become Queen. The Pope said no and so Henry created the Church of England so that he could marry Anne. With Henry leaving the Catholic Church, this is when the Puritans began seeing the immoral and lax attitude the Nobility and the Church of England had towards the rules of the Bible and God.

The history of Hartford begins with Thomas Hooker’s arrival in Newtown (later renamed Cambridge) Massachusetts where he became a pastor of one of the earliest established churches there. However, voting in Massachusetts was limited to freemen or limited to people who had been formally interrogated on their religious views and experiences. Hooker disagreed with these limitations and their influential pastor, John Cotton. So, Thomas Hooker and Reverend Samuel Stone led a group of one hundred people in 1636 and founded the settlement of Hartford. Which then led to the founding of the Connecticut Colony and Hookers increased involvement in politics. On January 14, 1639 freemen from the three colonies that made up the Connecticut Colony sat down and ratified the “Fundamental Orders of Connecticut” which was called “the first written constitution known to history that created a government. It marked the beginnings of American democracy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves more than any other man to be called the father. The government of the United States today is in lineal descent more nearly related to that of Connecticut than to that of any of the other thirteen colonies” (John Fiske).

Another cause of the American Revolution was the desire of the colonists to have freedom of religion and the determination of England that the colonist must remain true to the Church of England. Puritans, a religious group who came to the colonies seeking freedom of religion, wanted to remain a part of the Church of England, but develop their own style of worship. Another more radical religious group, Separatists, wanted a complete break from the Church of England. The goal of both of both the Puritans and the Separatists was to have the freedom to express religious beliefs without fear of persecution by the church or government. England remained firm that the colonist must follow the practice of the Church of England with no variation ("Annenberg Learner," 2013).

John Calvin  He spelled out his doctrine in 1536 called Institutes of the Christian Religion.  He formed Calvinism.

New England marks the beginnings of the Baptist struggle for “religious liberty.” Baptist names such as: Roger William, John Clark, and William Screven were significant figures that advanced the cause and displayed the trials and struggle of “religious liberty.” Roger William, (who was a

Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, influenced the United States through his efforts to create religious freedom and through his establishment of Rhode Island. Before coming to America, Williams was able to receive an education at Pembroke College at Cambridge University, receiving various scholarships for his merit in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. At the time of his marriage to Mary Barnard in 1629, Williams had already been a name known throughout Europe for his ideals on religious acceptance. His religious tolerance sprung from his lifelong desire for a closer relationship with God. Although these strong beliefs caused many problems for him—including getting banished from places like Massachusetts—he never let them go. He let them fuel

The Massachusetts Bay colony was an east coast colony near current day Boston. The Massachusetts Bay colony was formed as a Puritan settlement. (Massachussettes bay) Most of the original 400 settlers of the colony were Puritans. The colony celebrated its first Thanksgiving on July 8, 1629. After this, the Massachusetts Bay colony had a period of continual growth and expansion due to many ministers reacting to the oppressive religious policies of England. (the Massachusetts Bay Colony wikipedia) Many Puritan ministries developed due in part to the influx of puritans that vastly dominated

Throughout the sixteenth century, many immigrants came to the New England regions, seeking refuge from religious prosecution especially in England. The Protestant Reformation was a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity as well as most other religions throughout Europe. The series of events in sixteenth century England that caused the Church to break away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic church is known as the English reformation. Many traveled to the colonies to escape religious persecution throughout this reformation period in Europe. The New England colonies, especially the Massachusetts Bay Colony as well as Rhode Island were much more liberal and advanced than the Old world communities were. For example, in Providence, Rhode Island, courageous Roger Williams but a Baptist church, establishing complete

His father, James, was a prosperous merchant in London. His mother, Alice, brought him up in the Anglican Church. Roger’s early exposure to King James I’s religious persecution of the Puritans might have influenced his later beliefs in civic and religious liberty.In adolescence, Roger came to the attention of Sir Edward Coke, the brilliant English lawyer. With Coke’s support, Roger enrolled in Charter House School in London. Displaying a gift for languages, he quickly ch. This earned him a scholarship to Pembroke College, in Cambridge. After graduating from the school in 1627 Williams took holy orders in the Church of England. However, before leaving Cambridge, he converted to Puritanism, alienating himself from the Anglican Church.so he did not like a lot of peapolHis death went mostly unnoticed. It was the that transformed Williams into a local hero–Rhode Islanders came to appreciate the legacy of religious freedom he had bequeathed to

The break from the Catholic Church began when King Henry VIII came into conflict with the Pope over the divorce he wanted to obtain from his wife Catherine of Aragon. After several years of bickering with the Papacy, Henry VIII eventually separated from the church of Rome to the church of England. But this new entity, the church of England, was basically the Catholic Church without the Pope and the monasteries. For the rest of the reign of Henry VIII, and that of following Tudor monarchs there would be vicious competition between the new Protestants and Catholics for supremacy. There was also dissension among the Protestants themselves over how far the reform of the Church should go, and over the course of some years a split began to form between the members of the Church of England.

One early settler in Rhode Island was Roger Williams (a founder of Rhode Island) who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was banished because he spoke out against the Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the rule of the Court, he questioned the right of authorities to punish religious bickering, and the right to take away Indians land. Another founder was Anne Hutchinson, who was also banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, for religious reasons. Rhode Island officially became a state in 1790 on May 29.

The overtaking of the Church of England began when Henry VIII became king. He initiated the

Calvin started his reformation movement in Geneva, Switzerland, which put him in a leadership position at some point. Calvin’s mindset was to make sure that Geneva would be a model city ruled by God through both civil magistrates and reformed ministers. He believed that in order to do this the thought process of the moral laws of a Christian community needed to be changed. Calvin emphasized the role of the church community in punishing violation of both civil and moral laws against such practices as gambling and public drunkenness. This made is so that the church became a major part of the Calvinist reformation.

During the reformation, The Church of England was different from many other Protestant sects due to the ruling and the structure. As an illustration, The Church of England was established by King Henry because he wanted to divorce his wife at the time while other Protestant churches were formed due to religion and beliefs. As you can see, due to Henry’s 6 wives and creating a church not for religion, but for his own divorce, he was not as holy and religious as all of the other Protestant churches.

In 1533, Calvin went back to France where there was a great deal of commotion going on. All of these new ideas were now reaching scholars, the courts and other circles of people. In 1534, as