How did differing ideas about religion and the role of women help to cause the issues surrounding Anne Hutchinson? Look at the sequence of events and interactions that helped contribute to her downfall. End with a statement about what her downfall implies about life in the early American colonies.
Anne began to vigorously spread Cotton’s message to other women, with Cotton’s approval, since more women would often enter his congregation after following Anne’s persuasiveness.
Colonial society women were encouraged to meet up for gossip and mutual support, then in 1635 Hutchinson began to evening meetings for women. They liked her interpretations of the Scripture and soon after their husbands began to attend her meetings with their wives. More and more people started to attend the meetings and later she offered more meetings of religious instructions. She shared her beliefs on disagreeing with the Puritain lifestyle which didn't make many ministers happy. In 1636, Hutchinson wasn't pleased with John Wilson's sermon and she led a crowd of women out of the meetinghouse. Soon, Winthrop targeted her, he stated she "Interpet passaged at her pleasure and expound dark placed of scripture and it her own."
