Church of England

dominant people in New England. They desired to purify the English Church, hence their name. They decided that the best way to do that was to come to America, and try to be a model society, for the rest of the world to see. They tried to not to give in to temptation, but to live a godly life. They made many rules to try to prevent sinning, and to keep their lives extremely pure. For as big as their aspirations were, the Puritans were not perfect. During the 17th century, The New England Puritans…

The New England society of the Massachusetts bay colony and the Chesapeake colony of Virginia were different in development by the distinctive groups of colonist that built up their towns, religiously persecuted families that were looking to establish a perfect church society in the New England region, where as young single men came to look for gold and wealth in the Chesapeake region. Because of this difference in types of colonists, there was a major difference in the type of economy that came…

During the 17th century two region were settled by people of English origin. These two regions were known as the Chesapeake and the New England colonies. Even though the two areas were governed by the English, the colonies had similarities as well as differences. The New England colonies were formed by people seeking religious freedom while those of the Chesapeake colonies traveled to the New World to seek wealth and economic profit. Socially, in the early part of the Chesapeake colonization…

on the land would form a society to teach other how to develop the land. Society as a substitute for a government could have persuaded individuals in the New World with no prior knowledge of ruining a colony except previous government styles from England. By outlining the mistakes and consequences Britain experienced a government rule, Paine intended to show examples of what European powers and government would do in the New World. He continued to examine the European constitution with three…

Tyndale's ultimate fate was to be betrayed and burned at the stake. While he lost his life, his work would be rescued in the wake of dramatic events in England involving the monarchy. The actions of Henry VIII with regards to his marriage led England down a path towards divorcing the Catholic Church. The beginning of the Reformation in England set the stage for what is now known as the King James Versions, a translation that still holds a lot of sway, even in present times. The tradition of…

and opposed the Church of England and their allies the Puritans because they felt the church was solely corrupt. Being different from John Winthrop, Bradford was raised on a farm and was taught the styles of farming techniques along with being self-educated, he believed that God also had a plan for his life as well as the Pilgrims. He believed that God determined all the actions of his followers and their thoughts. His beliefs led the Pilgrims on a long road of exile from England and an…

the United Kingdom, the gravitational pull of London is immense. London is the political, cultural and social center of the United Kingdom and as Samuel Johnson has declared the noblest prospect a Scotchman ever saw was the high road that led to England, and by that he surely meant London and not the North and Midlands. This view of Scotland being the outliers of English culture and focus, may help to explain the absolute explosion in SNP (abbreviation erklärung als footnote) membership (Between…

Puritans viewed marriage as a civil contract as opposed to the Church of England who took a more religious approach to marriage. Since Puritans did not see marriage as a holy commitment, but rather as a mere legal contract irrelevant to one's religious views, the Puritans believed that a marriage ceremony should be performed by a magistrate and not a member of the clergy. This issue of Puritans not recognizing marriage as being linked to religion, allowed them not to see the end of a marriage as…

In 1606, King James I of England launched an expedition to the new world. In charge of this expedition was a company named Virginia, with the goal of creating a settlement in the new world with the intent of making the crown richer by finding gold and silver. Accompany by one hundred…

War broke out in 1642. The civil war that took place in 1642 and was a turning point in British history; it was an outbreak of war between two huge powers which was the Parliament and the Monarch. The civil war that occurred from 1642 to 1649 in England was unique in that it pitted a monarch and his representative assembly against one another for the first time ever. Even more groundbreaking, the English Civil War culminated in the first ever trial and execution of a sitting monarch. It was…