Massachusetts Bay Colony

Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay Colony both had great impacts for the thirteen colonies. Jamestown was the first surviving settlement for the English in the Americas. Jamestown’s survival caused more settlers to come to the Americas in the belief that they too could survive. The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay colony believed only Puritans should have a “voice” over the colony. Non-puritans left Massachusetts to start a new colony because they didn’t want to be pressured to follow the beliefs…

As early as 1650, the colony of Massachusetts Bay was a commercial success. But an inadequate supply of money put its future development in jeopardy. England themselves were in short supply and could not send gold and silver coins to the colonies. Massachusetts took matters into their own hands at this point. Boston authorities gave permission to two settlers, John Hull and Robert Sanderson to set up a mint in the capital in 1652. The two were soon striking silver coinage, shillings, sixpences,…

farmland, fame, and a better life. The people wanted to be able to practice their religion liberally, to get away from persecution, create trading businesses, and become landowners. Even though they were all looking for freedom in the New World, every colony had their own way of practicing religion, established settlements, and how they created a new life. Puritanism, consisting of both Puritans and Pilgrims, was a big group of believers that left the Catholic Church after the Reformation.…

English settlement did not separate into two distinct area until the 1700’s. The two sections of the English colonization were the New England and Chesapeake region. The New England area consisted of what is now currently Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The Chesapeake region was mainly Maryland and Virginia, even though the Carolinas and Georgia were considered part of the Chesapeake region as well. Although the two regions were both settled by Englishmen, the…

The Virginia Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not meritocracies. The definition of meritocracy is an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth. This system of meritocracy only existed for an elite few in the colonies of Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, those that were white, wealthy males. While the colonies had slightly different ways of going about it, they each had ways they prevented the people in the lower…

England had thirteen formative colonies in North America. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Bay were some of the prominent founding colonies. The two I choose to analyze are Massachusetts Bay Colony and Pennsylvania. Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the first English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, they arrived in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan colonists from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company received a charter…

The settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony differed from that of the Jamestown in several aspects, allowing it to become a more successful enterprise. For example, the settlement of Jamestown was greatly hindered by its location next to a swamp and garbage filled rivers, which allowed for the spread of malaria, dysentery, and typhoid fever. These diseases along with the lack of food in Jamestown, resulted in the death of about half of the original population within the first year (p58).…

help from Virginian Company, both Virginia and Massachusetts colonies have successfully built a colony in their respective areas of United States, and lived prosperously, even to this day. However, the two colonies are rather distinguishable. Even though both colonies came from the United Kingdom and settled in a land currently known as the United States, Virginia Colony suffered a huge loss in numbers during the settlement, while Massachusetts Bay Colony was able to avoid losing so many men.…

The British colony Virginia (Jamestown) was established in 1607 and 22 years later the Massachusetts Bay was established. There are many events and factors in history that helped in the founding and in the development of the colonies of Virginia (also known as Royal Colony), and Massachusetts Bay (also known as Charter Colony). They were both British Colonies, but the reasons they came were for different. Between these colonies there are many similarities and differences in the founding and…

In 1629, nearly 500 documented Puritan settlers traveled to America forming the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among these 500, was John Winthrop, who was chosen as their first governor. His eyes were focused upon God and his heart was set on freedom. Wishing to create a perfect model society, he wasted no time. Born in England, Winthrop belonged to the gentry, which dominated English society for one hundred years. He attended Trinity College in Cambridge, where he studied law. Being an avid man of…