In December 1620, the Mayflower vessel from England arrived on the coast, carrying a few English people who left England because of radical religious view who…
For example, the Pilgrims settled Plymouth Bay because of their pursuit of religious expression. Edward Winslow and William Bradford wrote the document entitled, A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England or Mourt's Relation. The purpose of this document is to explore the religious leanings of the settlement and publicize it in the hopes of more migration. This is in stark contrast to the settlement of the Chesapeake Colonies, which focused on primarily on economic wealth. For example, Jamestown in Virginia was founded on a charter from the Virginia Company of London.…
In the New England colonies, religion was very prevalent. For example, the Massachusetts Bay colony was settled by Puritans, a group of religious separatists who sought to break away from the Church of England in order to practice…
The settlement of the New England region was done by people, mostly families, escaping religious persecution in England, and others wishing to separate from the Church of England altogether. Before these…
Massachusetts and New England were both just two regions on a map but over time things started to happen and people started to flood in. Some people went up north to New England because they wanted religious freedom. King Henry VIII got rid of the catholic church and created the protestant church were he appointed…
Beginning in the early 17th Century, English settlers scattered themselves along the eastern coast forming some of the first clearly defined regions of the United States. While both the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies had deep-seated aversion for the natives, they differed in their religious homogeneity and economic policies. The New England colonies were strictly Puritan whereas the Chesapeake colonies followed no universal religion; also, while the New England colonies relied on fishing, shipbuilding, and farming, the Chesapeake colonies relied on their strong tobacco based economy. Although both regions were eventually conquered by the British and forced to merge as one nation, the New England colonies and the Chesapeake…
No matter what your religion was, the church was a major part of the town/village. Some of the town meetings were held there, it was a place to worship, and other church services. On the other hand, The New England Colonies and Middle Colonies have differences, too. The New England region…
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.…
In England, many of the English settlers decided to move west in search of their own colony. Two men, William Penn and John Smith, traveled into two colonies that were called Pennsylvania and Virginia. Since they both settled into their own colony, they each contained their own, separate issues. Religion was a major part of every colony differed greatly in these two colonies. Virginia which started first followed the religious ways of England, meaning that the colonists would all follow the same way in believing in God.…
Most of the Dutch settled in Pella, a town named in the Bible. Most of them came because of freedom of religion and sheep, and very easily could have been beaten or killed back in their home…
While Spain’s colonization did go about as a conquest, England’s colonization had been simply just that, colonization. In fact, England had promoted all kinds of civilians to take up residence in their colonies, from criminals to Puritans. Nevertheless, the effects of their colonizing were similar, if not identical. Englishmen pilgrimaging to America, whether Puritan, Protestant, Baptist, Catholic, or Quaker, differed the only minusculely from Spaniards’ robust Catholicism when concerning what to do with pagan ideas.…
The motivation for the Jamestown, Virginia settlement was to make money for the charter company that brought them there. These settlers made their money from farming tobacco. The motivation for Plymouth Plantation was very different, however. While in England, Bradford joined a group of Puritans who believed that the Church of England was…
When widespread immigration to the New World began, the immigration was not an equal distribution of people of all motives and cultures. People immigrated to certain areas of the New World based on what they hoped to achieve there. Some people were seeking relief from religious persecution, while others hoped to make a fortune in the new, abundant land. These varying motives lead to people with similar motives settling near other people with similar beliefs. One group of these people tended to immigrate to the region known today as New England.…
By the 1700s, the New England and the Chesapeake regions developed into two different colonies due to each colony’s reason for settlement, consisting of religious and economic reasons, their personal beliefs, and their growth in their society. While the settlers of New England immigrated to the Americas to escape religious persecution, the settlers of the Chesapeake region immigrated for more economic reasons—the search of gold. Each colony’s way of life contrasted from one another in the way they lived in their societal systems. The impacts of these differences evolved the colonies uniquely. Documents A and D reveal the religious motivations behind the New England settlers’ settlements.…
Beginning in the 1630’s Puritans came to the colonies after facing persecution in England for their want to purify and reform the Church of England. The Puritans believed that the New World was similar to the Garden of Eden and that the New World was going to be the “city upon the hill”. The Puritans settled in the now known area of Boston, and held services in bare churches throughout the town. Three people who were principal to Puritan religion in the colonies were Richard Mather, a minister in Dorchester Massachusetts who drafted the Cambridge Platform, a description of the Congregational system.…