Anne Hutchinson was only one of many banned from not only her colony, but her religion after expressing her independent thoughts on being a puritan.The Puritans were a group of religious people wanting to set an example for the rest of the world. Anyone that questioned their authority was viewed as a threat and banished soon after. The Puritans views and values about fair and just rights, religious beliefs, and independent thinkers influence life in colonial England by causing depopulation. In the past, the Puritans had extremely strict rules and beliefs within their colonies. According to document 9, an excerpt from Anne Hutchinson’ trial,“You are known to be a woman that hath great share in the promoting and divulging of those opinions that are the cause of this trouble.” This shows just how much women were allowed to speak their opinions as Puritans. It wasn’t considered lady like for them to speak out like that. Another example of how uncompromising the Puritans were can be found in document 4. “Death; yea, an early death, and a woeful death, is not seldom the curse of God …show more content…
A snippet from document 9, stated “...not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God, nor fitting your sex…”. The Puritans didn’t give women the same “fair and just rights” as they did for men. They gave males much more power and political rights. Likewise, Document 5 shows how many innocent people died in the Salem Witch Trials. If a person was accused of witchcraft, they either denied it and died for being honest, or was imprisoned after lying and confessing to it. How is this considered and “fair and just” system when it couraged people in England to lie to keep their lives? In the end, the Puritans caused even more deaths which further increased the death rate in colonial