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Colonial Religious Movements · US History

Anne Hutchinson’s trial and banishment from Massachusetts demonstrated the Puritan leadership’s:

  1. Commitment to establishing full and total gender equality within colonial government and courts
  2. Intolerance of dissent and 'antinomian' challenges to their religious authority
  3. Desire to move away from the Bible as a source of law
  4. Efforts to form an alliance with the Spanish in Florida
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Correct answer: Intolerance of dissent and 'antinomian' challenges to their religious authority

Hutchinson claimed to receive direct revelations from God and criticized ministers for preaching a 'covenant of works.' Her challenge to the male-dominated clergy was seen as a threat to both religious and social order.

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