Here are notes on the role gender played on making colonial religion modern religion. You can use gender as a basis for how the colonial past led our future in one direction. The part I think would be most helpful to you is in red.
Open with, “After Adam and Eve, there was Anne Hutchinson and john Winthrop.” Because as you know she was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony By John for preaching something different.

Gender:
If you happen to be someone who participates in jewish/Christian services? How many men/women attend? Usually more women. Why?
Protestant is the most dominant until 1860
As you move into the early 19 century, Baptist and Methodist
Predominant is protestant
Women in Colonial Society:
-Adam’s rib
- women is a “helpmeet” for man. The side, to be content with equality.
-Equality function
- Were on equal terms in the value and their degree of their participation on the development of the colonies. But only men could have leadership roles. Think of a farm. Women were managers of household economy, feeding the family, cultivating and producing the food. Own economic system of home production. Most women would live out their lives as junior partners in the household economy, but denied the control of the land. Yet colonial women were unlikely to feel useless or alienated from their family by the subsistence economy because they conducted the education and discipline of the children and extended family. If her husband died, she would be the sole person responsibly. The colonial man and woman had overlapping function. Women could go out and do man’s work and vice versa. Both involved in child interaction. Women didn’t have to be feminine, passive, petite, etc. Eight children on average and limited emotional attachment, along with high infant mortality.
Barn cats: people have a certain lack of attachment, like these women with their