Question

What did John Smith and Anne Hutchinson have in common?

Answer 1

They are believed to be alike in ways that are very competitive. They both spoke out against unfair religious treatments. They loved to talk a lot but with a good sense.

Hutchinson was a women who spoke out in church about how the religious leaders were substituting their own judgment for that of God's. So they were judging people in a way that should only be judged by God. Winthrop was the one the brought her to trial for heresy and she was tested on her biblical knowledge, her knowledge far exceeded that of her questioners and she probably would have been aquitted had she not said that God had directly revealed himself to her (which protestants don't believe God does anymore). She was then banished and went to Rhode Island.

Answer 2

Don't forget to give me a medal for answering right. :D