2. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?! 1 – Meet in secret 2 – Have a parent help you out 3 – Change your beliefs 4 – Fight and, most likely, die 5 – Escape somehow 6 – Take the persecution

3. MAYFLOWER

4. How about this? - Pilgrims were also called Separatists - Separatists were on the Mayflower -Separatists were seen as evil people -Separatists were hanged for writing books -Separatists were imprisoned for gathering together -Separatists started American democracy

5. Tell me, tell me a story! The Church of England knowledgefiles.com/.../holybiblekingjames.jpg

6. Who were the Separatists? - believed the Church of England was corrupt - wanted to “separate” from the church - similar to the Puritans

7. You can’t do that! SEPARATISTS were not allowed to: - hang out together -write books -preach their beliefs -attend any other church but the Church of England

8. Those who disobeyed: IMPRISONED – BANISHED – HANGED -Richard Fritz and three others die from their decade long imprisonment -John Copping and Elias Thacker were hanged at Bury St Edmunds for spreading Separatists books and pamphlets

9. Let’s split! From England to Holland to the New World www.hdg.de/.../images/religion/mayflower.jpg

10. Well we’re here! Now what? MAYFLOWER COMPACT – PLYMOUTH –THANKSGIVING students.historygeek.org/Unit1/mayflower

12. How about this?! - The Quakers settled Pennsylvania - Quakers were non-violent - Quakers were beaten -Quakers couldn’t hang out with each other -Quakers started religious freedom in America

13. Why Persecute the Quakers? -pacifists -egalitarian -believed every person had the capability to experience “God’s spirit - would not swear oaths to the Church of England or the King

14. Attack on Quakerism! - QUAKER ACT OF 1622 - Corporation Act

15. -retrieved from Walking in the Way of Light; Weddle, Oxford University Press

16. Check the stats! 1661 to 1685 -15,000 Quakers imprisoned!! -450 died in prison -200 were banished from England -countless other were forced to pay fines large and small Statistics found: Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558 – 1689.Coffey, John

17. The Quakers had enough! www.williampenn.org/ -Admiral Penn -William Penn -King Charles II -Pennsylvania

18. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM! Charter of Privileges by William Penn www.amphilsoc.org/exhibits/treasures/charter.htm