Ryan+H.+-+I+am+Thomas+Hooker

For my "I am" project I did Thomas Hooker. I already knew that he was a Christian and colonial leader under puritan belief. When he was younger he attended college in Cambridge, England to learn to preach at church as a clergyman/reverend. His father was a craftsman, his mother was a housewife, and it is unknown of his siblings. As he grew older, he worked in a church but had his own opinions and beliefs against its admissions, so the government persecuted him and decided to kick him out of the colonies forcing him to retreat to Massachusetts with only a handful of followers. During this journey, he helped found the colony of Connecticut and set up a new law/regulation (The Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut) which allowed non-church members to be able to vote in the new church he set up, this gave more rights to the people by making things more democratic. Because of this major contribution to America, he is known today as the Father of American Democracy There were only some questions that came to my mind whilst researching about my person: Why did only a few colonists follow Hooker when he knew that he was going to make a church more democratic and fair? After Hooker set up his own church that was considered more fair compared to the ones in the colonies, why did the majority of the colonists continue to attend the New England church's?

My primary historical question is... I**f Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams continued to work together when they were in Massachusetts, how might Hooker's accomplishment be different?**


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Books: [|- http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-4866(195212)25%3A4%3C459%3ATH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C] - Clinton Rossister [|- http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-4866(193110)4%3A4%3C663%3ATHATDO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D] - Perry Miller [|- http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/ABL/etext/historictowns/historictowns.html] - George Roberts**