John Winthrop Characteristics

Starting a colony is not an easy accomplishment, but John Winthrop proved that he was capable of gathering people, taking them to a new country and settling in a town. John Winthrop was a good leader. He was raised in a wealthy family and his father was an excellent businessman. Winthrop was following into his father’s footsteps which lead to taking over his father’s business. Attending college at the age of 17 converted Winthrop into a great leader and noble hard worker. Having these characteristics really helped Winthrop to build the colony and governed it. His first act was when Charles I became king and his wife was a catholic. King Charles I was persecuting many Puritans, which made the Puritans worry and not feel safe. Winthrop quickly …show more content…
Winthrop’s idea on keeping peace with the Puritans decided to make their government a democracy. Luckily, Winthrop was elected governor more than once and picked eleven other members of the Massachusetts Bay Company to create laws and authority.(Morgan,77) It is one of the best ways to start a community by making laws because it makes the Puritans have ordered and not be sloppy. When starting a community, you want to have everything under control and set rules once you land in a new country to keep the community together and prevent starting a riot or corruption between the Puritans. Another thing to keep the peace in a community is where Winthrop and the other members of the company did not establish aristocracy.(Morgan, 90-91) Giving everyone equal rights and freedom avoids problems within the government and allows equality between every person. In addition, not giving special treatments to the upper class or wealthy people was a righteous law to make. This part of the laws and authority making from Winthrop was the equitable way to act since being a leader, you know how to create equality and happiness within the people. Which Wintrop was great at doing, but again it is not easy to create a reasonable law that keeps everyone in line and peaceful. This goes back to Winthrop’s leadership skills and socially knowing the Puritans on how to keep them civil. Winthrop did an excellent job on starting the process of a new government, but they got carried away with the laws that made it immoral and undemocratic. Also, the other members that Winthrop had beside him did not know when to be lenient or when to be strict. For example, they were strict with the people, whoever did not want to follow them were considered separatists and wanted to eliminate them just because of their beliefs. That is a wrongdoing from their part because that commences the separation