Elements of Colonial Life in New England
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Massachusetts Bay Colony was thriving as a result of the successful fur trading, fishing, and shipbuilding industries. This was made possibly by skillful settlers like John Winthrop, an affluent and educated settler who became the colony’s first governor.
The Pilgrims arrived outside of the Virginia Company’s domain and therefore had no specific authority. In order to prevent chaos in the colony, Pilgrim leaders wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact before leaving the ship. The Mayflower Compact was an agreement to form a simple government in which all of the men had a part in deciding laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices that would benefit the colony (3A2).
Religious leaders …show more content…
Williams went on to be the founder of Rhode Island and established a community with complete freedom of religion The colony had no oaths regarding religious beliefs, no mandatory attendance at church, and no taxes to support a state church (AP, 48).
Everyone in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was required to pay taxes for the government-supported church, regardless of their religious beliefs (AP, 47).
New Haven was founded in 1638 but was then merged with the settlements in the Connecticut Valley in 1662 by the crown after sheltering two of the judges that sentenced Charles I to death.
The Indians in New England originally befriended the English settlers and even helped them celebrate the first Thanksgiving. However, as the colonists started settling on more of the Indians’ land, hostile confrontations occurred and ruined the peaceful relations.
Rogers Williams founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony and established that his colony would have no taxes to support a state
Economic
Political
Social
Massachusetts Bay Colony was thriving as a result of the successful fur trading, fishing, and shipbuilding industries. This was made possibly by skillful settlers like John Winthrop, an affluent and educated settler who became the colony’s first governor.
The Pilgrims arrived outside of the Virginia Company’s domain and therefore had no specific authority. In order to prevent chaos in the colony, Pilgrim leaders wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact before leaving the ship. The Mayflower Compact was an agreement to form a simple government in which all of the men had a part in deciding laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices that would benefit the colony (3A2).
Religious leaders …show more content…
Williams went on to be the founder of Rhode Island and established a community with complete freedom of religion The colony had no oaths regarding religious beliefs, no mandatory attendance at church, and no taxes to support a state church (AP, 48).
Everyone in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was required to pay taxes for the government-supported church, regardless of their religious beliefs (AP, 47).
New Haven was founded in 1638 but was then merged with the settlements in the Connecticut Valley in 1662 by the crown after sheltering two of the judges that sentenced Charles I to death.
The Indians in New England originally befriended the English settlers and even helped them celebrate the first Thanksgiving. However, as the colonists started settling on more of the Indians’ land, hostile confrontations occurred and ruined the peaceful relations.
Rogers Williams founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony and established that his colony would have no taxes to support a state