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3) So they could spread their own religion. They intended to take over with there religion.

4) The puritans thought that if you didn’t build buildings and such on the land then you don’t really own it and the Pequot people thought that you temporarily live there and that you don’t really say that its your land. The Puritan people thought that the men should do all the work and the women just did household chore, whereas the Pequot people thought that the women should do all the farming and all the work while the men hunted. The Pequot people didn’t believe in war, they settled it by talking and through spirits and the Puritan people believed in genocide.

5) Dutch came to the new world not land so they got along with the natives better, but the British fought natives for the land.

12) Well it essentially whipped out the Indians and changed the way people thought and acted in the Americas. Most Indians believed in peace and talking things through and they lived a complete different life style. Then the English came over with there opinions about the way things should be ran and they whipped the Indians out, whereas if this hadn’t happened the united states may not have even existed or advanced the way it has. After this massacre people started attacking all the Indians everywhere

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1) He envisions it as a perfect community. Everyone works together, mourns together, basically he is saying that the people unit as one big family that supports each other. This might have been possible back then for the puritans because the type of environment he describe was a lot like what the puritans believed in and so they wouldn’t of had a hard time abiding by his rules, but I think in the modern day it probably isn’t possible.
2) He means that they are going to be the perfect city and that everyone will look up to them. By everyone I mean the other cities and religions.
3) I don’t think that he had the Native Americans in mind because they were much more peaceful and in tune with one another than the puritans. They truly believed in peace and talking things over instead of fighting. When the puritans attacked the Pequot people I don’t think they upheld Winthrop’s vision in anyway.