The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz

Edmund Morgan

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Chapter 1, The Taming of the Heart

Chapter 2, Evil and Declining Times

Chapter 3, A Shelter and a Hiding Place

Chapter 4, The Way to a New England

Chapter 5, Survival

Chapter 6, A Special Commission

Chapter 7, A Due Form of Government

Chapter 8, Leniency Rebuked

Chapter 9, Separatism Unleashed

Chapter 10, Seventeenth-Century Nihilism

Chapter 11, The New England Way

Chapter 12, New England or Old

Chapter 13, Foreign Affairs

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The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz

The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz

Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?

Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

When did Massachusetts become involved in the French feud between two Frenchmen who both claimed governorship of Acadia?

Winthrop and his governing assistants seized whose “strong water” because he sold too much of it to other men’s servants, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

The author says of John Winthrop in Chapter 13: “Foreign Affairs,” “His most daring foreign adventure was in playing off two Frenchmen against each other.” The two Frenchmen who both claimed the governorship of Acadia were Charles de Saint Etienne de la Tour and whom?