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In America, we have freedom of religion and every religion is accepted, but that was not always the case when the Puritans tried to force their religion on the Indians. Religion is a touchy topic in our society today, but not as much as it was when the Puritans first came to the New World and tried to force the natives to their religion. This created a conflict that got so heated it was a cause of war. This conflict makes us wonder, who started the fighting? Did the natives do something to the…

religious group during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who, after oppression from the King of England, sought to reform the Church of England from its Catholic traditions. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to a Puritan family in 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. From his experiences, Hawthorne explores the Puritan viewpoint of how people conform under the social expectations of a Puritan society. His parents, Nathaniel Hathorne (Hawthorne was ashamed of his ancestral history because of their…

In the 17th and early 18th centuries, America was struggling to unite. Many attempts of a union were made, but each for different reasons. In the beginning, colonists created governments that ran by the rules of God, not the people. Most settlers in America were religious, especially the ones who settled in the northern colonies, so they had theocratic governments. Also, these governments were much more simpler and basic. Later, however, there were more democratic governments because Americans…

Apostle Paul. Such a revelation inspired her to spread the Word. Contrast to Winthrop, God did not condemn Lydia or any other woman for spreading the gospel. Mistress Hutchinson’s belief in the Covenant of Grace posed a threat to the magistrate’s authority and their ability to retain control over the people by imposing their religious doctrines (Bremer 1981). Though it eluded Winthrop, Mistress Hutchinson understood the Old Covenant had been fulfilled through Jesus Christ; “For sin shall no…

he Shakers were originally located in England in 1747, in the home of Mother Ann Lee. They developed from the religious group called the Quakers which originated in the 17th century. Both groups believed that everybody could find God within him or herself, rather than through clergy or rituals, but the Shakers tended to be more emotional and demonstrative in their worship. Shakers also believed that their lives should be dedicated to pursuing perfection and continuously confessing their sins and…

Winthrop’s idea on keeping peace with the Puritans decided to make their government a democracy. Luckily, Winthrop was elected governor more than once and picked eleven other members of the Massachusetts Bay Company to create laws and authority.(Morgan,77) It is one of the best ways to start a community by making laws because it makes the Puritans have ordered and not be sloppy. When starting a community, you want to have everything under control and set rules once…

groups of people who were built to survive Jamestown’s conditions that were thrown their way (Schweikart and Allen 2004). Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony were both founded by the Puritans. Both of them were founded because they either chose to leave England or they were exiled. The Non-Separatists were those who were forced to leave England and founded Massachusetts Bay Colony when the Separatists left England on their own and founded Plymouth. These colonies were used to religious…

Rebellion and discontentment led to a lack of unity in the Chesapeake region. The distinct societies of the Chesapeake and New England region was because of the difference in the founders motives. While Jamestown was founded for profit, the Massachusetts Bay colony was meant by the Puritans to be a model society. While New England was made up of neighborly communities, the Chesapeake had discontented males and a lack of women. Due to differing influences both regions developed into their own…

England. After ten years, a rich syndicate, known as the Massachusetts Bay Company, sent a much bigger gathering of Puritans to build up another Massachusetts settlement. With the assistance of neighborhood locals, the homesteaders soon got the hang of cultivating, angling and chasing, and Massachusetts flourished. As the Massachusetts settlements extended, they produced new states in New England. Puritans who imagined that Massachusetts was not sufficiently devout, shaped the states of…

As England began to take interest in the "New World", colonization by Englishmen began to spread drastically in the 1600's. English colonies took place on the eastern coast of the United States. Two early settlements established were in the New England and Chesapeake region. Although both were settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 these two regions had evolved into two distinct societies, due mainly to reasons involving the reasons for settlement, geographical differences leading…