Massachusetts Bay Colony

In the 1600s Barbados was a beautiful and flourishing city, whereas the town of Wethersfield was cold and tedious. The big island of Barbados features many shops, restaurants, large plantations, and slaves. While both communities boasted natural beauty, Barbados was dramatically colorful. The Puritan religion and lifestyle of the people of Wethersfield contrasted greatly with the open-minded views of the Church of England, Barbados inhabitants. In fact, the famous witchcraft trials of…

wanted to found their “New Jerusalem”. In the Psalms of David, which describe his own spiritual “wilderness experience”, they found hope and consolation. It is not surprisingly then, that these Psalms appeared in the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. David’s Psalms appeared to be of particular importance to one Puritan woman, who – during her almost three-month captivity by Wampanoag Indians – literally struggled with the wilderness. This woman was of course Mary…

INTRODUCTION There were huge clashes on religion which were going on in America and in the late 17th century, these clashes between political and religious groups came to an end which led to the revolution of 1688. This marked to an era where Church of England ruled as the Church of the country. Other religions such as Catholicism, Puritanism were suppressed. Everyone started practicing one religion. But it had some spiritual dryness among believers. Religion was considered to be a past time…

Chesapeake started growing two different identities. People left their homes with family and all ,then they embarked on a journey to the new world. Some people went to the north for religious freedom, while some went south on a quest to find money. 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…

the bible and practice their religion freely. The famous ship on which they sailed across the Atlantic in 1620 was called the Mayflower. After a rough journey, the settlers finally arrived in Cape Cod. This peninsula, that today is a part of Massachusetts, lies…

In the “Scarlet Letter” novel, the plot takes place in an early New England colony, mid-17th century at Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the best called name for the Puritan community of Boston in which is also part of the setting. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne mentions many settings in the novel, including the wilderness, custom-house, prison door and the town scaffold. The town scaffold is the place that sets off the novel’s beginning, middle, and end. It’s also…

Puritanism was a religious reform movement in the church of England. It started in the 16th century in England but soon spread to the Northern English colonies in the New World. The Puritans in America are responsible for the religious, social, and political order of New England colonies. Puritanism in Colonial America helped shape American culture, politics, religion, society, and history into the 19th century. The Pilgrims and the Puritans were two different groups of settlers that came to…

During the Colonial Era, many people immigrated to America; arriving on crowded, often disease-ridden passenger and freight ships. They were from a variety of countries, and they came for a variety of reasons. The chief reasons for immigration were political asylum, religious persecution, and economic opportunity. During the early 1600s, many English peasants were evicted, in favor of sheep cultivation, due to increasing demand for wool. Many peasants left England searching for new pastures.…

of living in England, the Puritans demanded a royal charter from King Charles that would grant them permission to embark on a journey to America. While granting the charter, King Charles failed to mention that the governors and officials of the new colony would be required to stay in England. Therefore, leaders such as John Winthrop, assumed that the Puritans could leave England and practice their religion in America, living life as defined by the…

It’s interesting how any two parents, having their child's best interests in mind, will often disagree on exactly the cause to pursue and how to do this. Throughout the 17th century, in and around the newly formed Massachusetts Bay Colony, both John Eliot and Roger Williams performed many civic duties but, like parents, they dedicated themselves to different causes and used different means to pursuing them. In addition, both Eliot and Williams believed civic duty, being the duties or obligations…