Puritan New England--The "City on a Hill"

1. Two Visions of "America"
   1. Chesapeake--A Second Chance for the Individual--Masters of Small Worlds
   2. New England--A Second Chance for Mankind--A Land With a Mission
2. The Roots of the New England Vision--The Reformation
   1. Radicalism--"Reinventing" Church and Society
   2. The Reformation in England
      1. A Haven for Reformers, BUT
      2. A Corrupt Kingdom
         1. A "Popish" Hierarchy
         2. A Hostile King--Charles I
         3. A Society in Moral Decay
   3. The Puritan Response
      1. Failure of Internal Reform
      2. A New Vision--A Model Society Outside England
3. Colonization
   1. The Massachusetts Bay Company--The Joint Stock Company as Independent Government
      1. Headquarters in Boston
      2. A Covenant Community
   2. Puritan Society--A Corporate Vision
      1. Fundamental Social Unit--The Family [not the individual]
      2. Communal Settlement--the Town System
   3. Development and Change
      1. Prosperity
      2. Decay of the Puritan Vision
         1. Dissidence
         2. Population Pressures
         3. The Corruptions of Commerce
         4. Theological Decline--The "Half-Way Covenant"
4. The Legacy of Puritanism
   1. A Small-Farming Society
   2. America as Ideal--The Jeremiad