Massachusetts Bay Colony

establish America. Making the church separate from the state, people have the freedom to practice their desired religions. Also this allows others from other countries to move here and practice their religion without fear of being harassed. So by colonies reshaping their religious outlooks in The Enlightenment Era, this allowed all people to be seen on an equal level. In the late fifteen and early sixteenth-centuries “religious conflicts began to tear Europe apart”. This was from the Catholic…

languages, and literature. She married Simon Bradstreet, a fellow Puritan, at the age of sixteen. Her husband assisted in the preparations of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and was the primary reason for the Bradstreets and Dudleys immigration to America. Anne Bradstreet has long been credited with being the first woman in the British North American colonies to have her work published. Her works primarily focused on the world around her and her disapprobation of the roles she was expected to…

commit extreme acts of injustice. The Heretic’s Daughter takes place in 17th century Massachusetts and tells the story of the Carrier Family. The Carrier Family, including Martha, Thomas, Richard, Andrew, Tom, Sarah and Hannah Carrier face many challenges during this time period which force them to experience extremism that lead to Martha Carrier’s death. During this time, the citizens of Massachusetts colony who were falsely accused of witchcraft endured the witch trials,…

As the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop eagerly established his position through his writings, both in “A Model of Christian Charity” in his attempt to induce the colonists to accept their position working for the good of the whole colony and in his journals. Winthrop simply desires that the colonists will work and live in amity, however any opposition to his authority poses a threat he cannot effortlessly overlook. Mary Dyer, the woman addressed by Winthrop in his…

Effects of the Development of Puritan Society During the late 1600s, a group of people called the Puritans came to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Area. The extremely religious Puritans believed that if they moved away from the Anglican Church of England, they could create a theocracy that would grant them a right to freedom, further the expansion of their Christian faith, and build a utopian society for themselves. However, when they arrived, they registered the fact that not…

Starting a colony is not an easy accomplishment, but John Winthrop proved that he was capable of gathering people, taking them to a new country and settling in a town. John Winthrop was a good leader. He was raised in a wealthy family and his father was an excellent businessman. Winthrop was following into his father’s footsteps which lead to taking over his father’s business. Attending college at the age of 17 converted Winthrop into a great leader and noble hard worker. Having these…

Emerging from these newly established colonies were New England and the Chesapeake. These two areas were built along the Atlantic Coast, housing hundreds of European settlers. However, as the people of New England and the Chesapeake began to construct societies of their own, the differences between the two colonies escalated. The differences between the European societies were due to the contrasting reasons for settlement in the Americas. This prompted the two colonies to establish differing…

they also believed that, as wives and mothers, women were to tend to their husbands hand and foot and “provide” the next generation of puritan children. The role of the modern puritan mother was of upmost importance in the Massachusetts Bay colony, and the women of Massachusetts Bay were considerably healthy in comparison, and yet, childbirth was still a dangerous affair for women. In Puritan New England, any woman having over five children faced a one in eight chance of dying in childbirth.…

sermon to the Puritan people on board the ship Arbella while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Unbeknownst to him or those in attenedence, his sermon would go down in history and serve as a defining literary example of American colonization. The main purpose of his speech can be linked to preparing the puritans on how to develop a new society in a dangerous environment. During the sermon, Winthrop reminded the colony of its purpose and the reason for existence. Drawing from biblical…

Most Puritans, including John Winthrop (a Puritan lawyer and leader) did not want to break away from the Church of England due to their reasoning that her churches could still be purified through compromise (Morgan, 27). However, when the Puritan leaders noticed that the corruption in England was on a steady rise, they decided to emigrate to New England in order to preserve a purer Church of England (Morgan, 44-45). For example, on March 10, 1629, King Charles customarily liquified the…