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John Winthrops Confusion

John Winthrop, in the 1700 thought that his religion was getting out of hand under the king and he wanted to establish a new community which would be Bible commonwealth. I intend to prove that the European diseases, that was carried over to the New World was not only a big help for them, but at the same time very new and lethal for the Native American.

It was an advantage or rather miraculous as John Winthrop puts it, seeing as how a mass majority of the Natives (savages) were taken out by smallpox, just in time for him and his Puritan crew (believers) to move in. He believed that because his cause was just, (as in creating a new colony with a holier people) he thought that God was helping him take out these unchristian savages so that he can begin setting up his new puritan colony. Not only that, with God on his side all the better for him to feel superior and to feel confident about his decision of his new colony. Going more in-depth John Winthrop was a well-educated man, his fat...

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