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    feel seasick! This was one of the many challenges that the Plymouth Colony Pilgrims had to face. I believe that the Plymouth Colony faced many hardships during their attempt to create a new colony. The three main challenges that the Pilgrims faced were the unpleasant conditions during their voyage, arriving at Cape Cod instead of their original destination, Virginia, and having to work in the harsh winter weather. All in all, the Plymouth Colony faced many challenges, but they still remained…

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    every Sabbath, and both powerfully and profitable, to the great contentment of his hearers” (qtd. in Gragg 291). This hard work and dedication of my ancestor, Brewster, was greatly admired. The work ethic he exhibited made the Pilgrims’ situation in Plymouth more compliant (Bradford and Morison). Brewster, along with William Bradford, led the Separatists on a challenging journey from Leiden, Holland, to America (Gragg 132). My ancestors’ immigration to North America in the 1600s…

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    governor of the Plymouth Colony agreement. He was born in england.Bradford was among many of the passengers on the Mayflower's trans-Atlantic journey, and he signed the Mayflower Compact upon landing in Massachusetts in 1620. He was elected governor for thirty years straight after John carver died. Bradford helped make its legal code and eased a community focused on private subsistence agriculture and religious strength. Around 1630, he began to write his two volumed story "Of Plymouth…

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    successful man who was willing to do anything to accomplish his goals. Drake’s Occupations 1560s slave voyages to Africa 1570-1573 pirated Spanish settlements in the Caribbean 1580 received privateer license from Queen Elizabeth 1581-1585 mayor of plymouth colony 1585-1588 chief naval advisor during the war against Spain Drake’s inspiration for choosing a career of privateering 1567 attacked at San Juan de Ulua by the Spanish in violation of treaty 1567 attacked at Veracruz by Spanish 1573…

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    Jamestown In Virginia

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    A few colonies and cities communities have experienced some secretive and unfathomable pasts which can't be overlooked for long. Comparative sort of history has been seen in Jamestown and Plymouth. Jamestown in Virginia was the principal lasting English settlement and Plymouth in Massachusetts being the second, with these two states English settlement in North America was begun. Jamestown was started when in 1607, the London Company was created by a group of merchants. They sent themselves onto…

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    The History of Virginia and the Plymouth Plantation The stories The Plymouth Plantation and History of Virginia written by William Bradford and John Smith. Both stories had their similarities but also had a lot of differences. Captain John Smith and William Brandford were both settlers who used their own techniques to survive these crazy unknown lands. Although they decided to settle these wild unknown lands they both came for different reasons. They risked a lot to settle over there.…

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    travelers sighted land and quickly figured out they were not arriving in virginia. On December 26, 1620 they came ashore to build what is known as “Plymouth Colony”.Since the pilgrims did not arrive in virginia, they needed some sort of government. They created the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth. The men that signed the compact agreed to established a civil government based on congregational church compact government. This means elect a…

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    In Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford’s language depict him as a very eccentric man when it comes down to his faith and his loyalty towards the Christian God. Through the excerpts, Bradford prides himself in one of the most common Christian sayings, “God works in mysterious ways.” This saying would become very prevalent in his account of the challenges and complication the Separatist faced during the “Pilgrim Journey”. Bradford reveals his views and beliefs through the diction in his writings…

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    Narragansett was an Algonkian language closely related to mohegan and massachusett some linguists consider Narragansett a dialect of one of those two languages, while others consider it a distinct language. Some example of words are: Narragansett Translation…

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    Mayflower Gender Roles

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    in the drafting and the signing of the Mayflower Compact “in accordance with the cultural and legal norms of the times” (pg. 43). The exclusion of women from the drafting and the signing of the first documentation of the framework of government of Plymouth Colony indicates the general role of women in the society: women were expected to refrain from engaging themselves in decision-making. Such expectation restricted women’s gender role significantly in colonial America as women were expected to…

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