Plymouth, Massachusetts

Development of America: Comparing and Contrasting the Northern, Southern, and Western Regions In today’s world, everyone sees America as a strong united country, but not to long ago, this was not the case. The United States was not always so united. America used to almost be looked at as three different parts; those parts being the North, the South, and the West. While the first thing that pops into most people’s minds is the huge difference between the North and South, what most people do not…

Traces of democracy have been linked backed as far as the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans. From the ideas of the Ancient Romans and Greeks, the idea came to inspire the colonists of America in the Pre-Revolutionary War era. Democracy in the Colonies could be coined with the term because these said colonies had several of the same traits as the “Traits of Democracy.” The development of democracy in Colonial America can be analyzed because of the “traits.” Democracy in Colonial America…

This resulted in the establishment of the Plymouth colony in 1620 and Massachusetts Bay in 1630. The commercialism of New England was a result of their “special zeal to honor their God and to seek rewards that offered reassurance that God approved of their efforts.” It was this belief in a ‘godly’ purpose that shaped their political authority. This can be seen in the most famous sermon given by John Winthrop, a gentry lawyer and governor of Massachusetts Bay, A Modell of Christian Charity.…

to do with this world. He is one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony is the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth. Massachusetts colony, like Plymouth, was mainly occupied by puritans except that Plymouth colony’s population never rose above 7,000 which lead it to be, after ten years, overshadowed by its larger neighbor, the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop was also a lawyer. The question is how did Winthrop…

When talking about the American Revolution, float on the surface of those events that took place late eighteenth century, and carried against Britain, the empire that the sun never sets, and that was colonize a wide part of the new world, and led after unanimously for the independence of what has become known in the United States for the British Crown. It goes without saying, that it is important consequences for the geographical disclosures movement which culminated in exploring Christopher…

in order to practice religious freedom. In 1630, a small group of Separatists left from Leyden, Holland during the Puritan Diaspora to practice their own religion, which was not accepted in Europe. John Winthrop, a Puritan and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, exhibits the Puritan’s aspirations in his piece A Modell of Christian Charity, which he read aboard Arabella on his way to the new world in 1630. In hopes to evoke the immigrants about his dream of creating an ideal community based…

oppressive rules.The Scarlet Letter shows his attitude toward these Puritans of Boston in his portrayal of characters, his plot, and the themes of his story. The early Puritans who first came to America in 1620 founded a precarious colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. While half the colonists died that first year, the other half were saved by the coming spring and the timely intervention of the Indians. These first settlers were followed ten years later by a wave of Puritans…

Jamestown vs. Plymouth Many settlers during the early 1600’s came to the Americas for different reasons. In 1607, a hundred and four men boarded the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery and landed in Virginia and named it Jamestown. Thirteen years later, a hundred and two pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, landed in Massachusetts and named their colony Plymouth. Jamestown and Plymouth came to the New World to start anew and prosper. Each of the colonies stay in the New World was different in many…

Puritans, the aforementioned conventional beliefs that a woman’s say is not worth that of a male prove to prevail when Winthrop rules Hutchinson should be banished. This mentality highlights the overall idea that freedom and tolerance in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies was subjective and at the discretion of the higher authorities. Freedom was only truly observed by those who shared the same beliefs as the Puritans as a whole, and tolerance was not observed when an individual strayed…

“Religion made an indelible impression on the New England and northern colonies in the seventeenth century.” The religion that influenced the settlement in the northern American colonies was Puritanism. Puritans believed that the Church of England should abolish its orthodox hierarchy and the traditions and the ceremonies inherited from the Rome, but those who really followed Puritanism knew that Puritanism demanded more from the individual than it did from the church. Puritanism also required…