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similar groups without mentioning the similarities? Puritanism, which encompasses the Puritans and the Pilgrim, was a group of disciples that split far from the Catholic Church after the English Reformation. Maxwell (2003) noted that: Puritanism in England was essentially a movement within the established church for the purifying of that church - for ministers godly and able to teach, for a simplifying of ritual, for a return to the virtues of primitive Christianity. There was nothing…

Voltaire asserts that England has “this wise system of government in which the prince, all-powerful for doing good, has his hands tied for doing evil, in which the aristocrats are great without arrogance and vassals, and in which the people share in the government without confusion”…

Burgesses was the first elected body of representatives in the colony. The Magna Carta is a charter agreed to by King John, to make peace between the King and barons on June 15, 1215. Of all…

during the medieval era? The Crusades or the War of the Roses may come to mind but what about The 100 Years’ War? The 100 Years’ War was fought from 1337-1453 which included a series of battles fought between two of Europe’s most powerful kingdoms, England and France. This conflict originated from an English King attempting to succeed the French throne (History). During this 116 year war, many battles were fought, new kings were crowned, and treaties were signed. The 100 Years’ war left a…

Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England on February 9th 1737. He immigrated to Philadelphia in late 1774, where he quickly became friends with advocates of the American cause like John Adams and Dr. Benjamin Rush, and it was actually Rush that persuaded Paine to write a pamphlet supporting American Independence.1 The pamphlet that Paine wrote Common Sense, first appeared in January of 1776 and it became one of the most successful and widely read political writings in colonial America’s…

Before Thomas Paine published Common Sense anonymously in January 10, 1776 a substantial amount of Americans were uncertain and faced a dilemma of either remaining loyal to the mother country, England or declaring independence and governing themselves as their own nation. Common Sense importance in American history is that it not only clarified that we should seek independence from Great Britain but screamed it as the pamphlet was made for the purpose to be heard rather than read. Using…

During the 17th century two region were settled by people of English origin. These two regions were known as the Chesapeake and the New England colonies. Even though the two areas were governed by the English, the colonies had similarities as well as differences. The New England colonies were formed by people seeking religious freedom while those of the Chesapeake colonies traveled to the New World to seek wealth and economic profit. Socially, in the early part of the Chesapeake colonization…

world, John Winthrop’s vision for a religious ‘City on a Hill’ transformed into a society with less religious fervor because problems with the natives and a desire for more secular goods and possessions made it hard and not popular for the Pilgrims to actively practice their religion. From the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop explicitly states the intentions for the colony to be a religious haven for Puritans when he says that “the Lord make it like that of New England.’…

One early attempt to colonize America killed over 430 people, so how did they survive? In the spring of 1607, three ships sailed from England filled with passengers whose goals were to find gold in the New World. Little did they know, those hopes were soon to be destroyed. The thought of this New World was appealing to most but many soon after would change their decision to come. During the first three years about eight percent of the colonists had died. But what killed them? On the peninsula…

Cecil J. Rhodes, or Cecil John Rhodes, was born in 1853 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. As a young boy, throughout his years, his health was was weak and was thought to have a disease, consumptive. At the age of nine, he attended the Bishop’s Stortford grammar school. Later in about 1869 he was taken out of grammar school. He became a British businessman and a magnate, a great man with high authority and a man in a high social position. Cecil Rhodes was connected with Africa…