As previously stated Pennsylvania was founded by a man named William Penn. Penn was a quaker man and believed some of the thoughts of the Puritan church to be too harsh. He wanted religious freedom for anyone and everyone and a fair government system for all; which is what led Pennsylvania to being such a diverse population. That mixed with the booming agricultural business and busy trade city, Philadelphia, led it to be a great colony and an even better place to settle!…
The Massachusetts and Virginia Colonies had many similarities, but often times we get the question concerning which colony benefited the United States better from an historical formation. The one who “created the corporate trading and colonizing company” (Cheyney 148) or the one who seeked “purity” (Cheyney 148). You begin to compare the two colonies. Taking everything into deeper thinking. Out of the two original colonies which one had a greater impact on the world?…
vWilliam Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was born in 1644 in London to Admiral Sir WIlliam Penn and Margaret Jasper Vanderschuren. He received his education at Chigwell School in Essex, England and attended Christ Church College but was expelled for criticizing the Church of England. He then studied theology at the Protestant Academy in France and returned to England to study law. Penn was inspired to become a Quaker when he traveled to Ireland to manage his father’s property and encountered Quakers who encouraged him to join the faith. He then began to write about his new religious beliefs.…
Unlike New England, many people died due to the diseases in areas like Virginia. Christian-like values were not always present as the settlers “vile” commanders demanded more money in exchange for food and water. Document E discusses the low wages in Connecticut and how the people came together to modify and regulate the prices. This shows how New England societies had a strong sense of unity by working out proper wages that all Puritans can live comfortably with to serve under God. This method of solving problems contrasted greatly with the Virginian colonies as shown in Document H where…
The British Colonies in North America were established for the most part in the mid 1600s, with two of the major groups being the New England area colonies and the Middle Atlantic area colonies. Religion must be considered when looking at the formation of these colonies. The New England colonies were shaped in major ways by the heavy impact of Puritan culture, and the establishment of the church as the centre of society. The Middle Atlantic colonies were also shaped by religion, specifically the belief in religious freedom held by the Quakers. The Quaker colonies were also shaped by the strongly held values of equality.…
Regardless of the problems that the American colonies presented, many settlers kept on coming to America because they were attracted to the religious freedom. The first people to take advantage of this were the Puritans. Trying to escape the persecution they were enduring in England, some Puritans came to the new world to worship how they pleased. Following them came many other colonies that used the land as a haven for their religions. Lord Baltimore founded Maryland as haven for Catholics and William Penn established Pennsylvania as a safe place for Quakers and other religions.…
During the 17th century, many Europeans, especially the English came over to America in search of a life better than the one they had in England. In the early to mid 1600s, two different groups of people, the participants from the Virginia Company and the Puritans. Despite this similarity, both the participants and the Puritans had other intentions of moving to America and with this, many other differences. Taking all the advantages and disadvantages the two groups had into consideration, the state of Rhode Island in the New England colonies would have been in the best condition to live in.…
New England’s land was covered with thick forests. While this made it difficult to farm, it provided the colonists with timber for building houses, ships, and tools. The natives taught the colonists how to hunt and trap the forest animals. The New England colonies suffered from a harsh climate.…
1. William Penn was an advocate of such a colony that allowed for greater religious freedom than there had been in Europe. As a Quaker, he sought the creation of a colony within which the Quakers could exercise their religious customs without any inhibition. William Penn, in support of religious liberty, argues that the freedom of conscience is integral to the attainment of happiness. He further asserts, in agreement with the Quaker faith, that God’s Spirit dwells in the masses and influenced the people’s conscience, and knowledge hence the people were to be protected from any form of religious related molestation.…
It had two divisions: The first colony in London and Second colony in Plymouth. King James had to do a mission that he was assigned to in the Virginia Company. He thought the settlers would have brought “Christian Religion” to Indians that lived in the darkness and worship God. The first English Colony was known for growing tobacco.…
Literacy- U.S. Studies: Religious Freedom William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, established a colony based on the ideas of religious liberty, equality, and self-government which served as the foundation of America’s constitutional rights to a secular government wherein all citizens may freely practice their religious beliefs; these ideas still impact the government’s inaction concerning citizens’ religious practices. William Penn created key principles of religious toleration, including religious liberty, equality, and self- government, and put these real-world practices into the colony of Pennsylvania. After Penn petitioned to begin his own colony in America and was granted space, he immediately began to put the idea into practice. “Penn advertised the colony, calling on “adventurers” from all nations and faiths to settle there. He promised them that they would be “governed by the laws of your own making and free to practice whatever religion they chose.”…
When a person thinks about America as a whole one of the things that comes to one’s mind is immigration. From the exploration of the Europeans to Ellis Island, a building many immigrants came through in their journey to America in the late 20th century, immigration has always been an essential part of America’s history. Many historical pieces of writing document the cause and effect of immigration on America. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford describes his and the Pilgrims voyage to the New World along with their interactions with the Indians. The Generall Historie of Virginia by John Smith describes one of the first English towns in America and its struggle to survive.…
However, the main difference in the way these colonies were established is the reason for the establishment itself. The Chesapeake and West Indies wanted to create an economic enterprise, but the New England Colony only wanted a place they could worship freely. This is not only reason for the differences in the establishment of each colony, but also the wellbeing of the colonists. While the establishment of all the colonies was God’s plan for America, it is clear that He had His Hand on the Puritans. This is the reason for the health and peaceful way of life given to them.…
In 1630, a group of more than 15,000 puritans landed in Massachusetts to escape persecution and bad economic times, they called this movement the “the Great Migration”. Once landed, the Puritans named the colony Massachusetts Bay. This colony was ruled by John Winthrop, who was an energetic governor/minister, had an authoritative rule, and believed that power was limited to Puritans. The Puritans had conflicts with the Plymouth colony who were Separatists (Pilgrims) because they had a different belief which the Puritans had no tolerance for. The conflicts would have never happened if the Pilgrims didn’t get blown off course and land in Massachusetts instead of Virginia.…
The first being the different backgrounds the groups of people who colonized them had. Virginia was colonized much before all of the New England colonies were which means that those who colonized New England had seen more of the “original” England and therefore had different views and perspectives. The second main reason behind the differences between the colonies is their climatic and geographical features. With one area being mountainous and infertile in terms of soil and the other being very flat and fertile. This impacted the way the colonists were able to make a living, stay alive, and enjoy themselves.…