Mayflower Compact

and the question of independence hung in the air. This question could not stand unanswered any longer, the colonists rose to the challenge and they were wise to declare independence from Great Britain. In 1620 when the Mayflower sailed to colonize America, the Mayflower Compact was formed. This written agreement that the pilgrims would live in a “Civil Body Politic” as they obeyed “just and equal laws” enacted by their representatives for the benefit of their community, was the first written…

Traveling aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies, English settlement in North America was born. Born in 1580 in Willoughby, England, Smith left home at age 16 after his father died. He joined volunteers in France who were…

of the Constitution, especially regarding the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was a signed document, or charter, created by the men who founded the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 after veering off course from a journey to Virginia. The Plymouth settlers used this charter as a self-governance agreement since all men agreed to sign it and follow the laws embedded. The idea of popular sovereignty that was used in the Mayflower Compact influenced the Constitution since the…

Beginning in the late 15th and 16th centuries, slave trade became quite popular in the slaves’ home country of Africa, where they were strictly imprisoned and horribly mistreated, as represented by the 18th century writings of Mungo Park and Olauda Equiano. Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who voyaged to Africa’s interior. During his visit, Park witnessed the African slave trade in action. His accounts led him to produce Travels to the Interior Districts of Africa. In his writings Park…

ordinary means and course for us to take to convert them…To us they cannot come our land is full; to them, we may go, their land is empty.” (The Puritan Logic of Migration, 5). When the Puritans were still on the Mayflower the came up with a self governing document, The Mayflower Compact, and once they were off the ship they settled in New England. The puritans ran a strict community, people were educated including women, and everybody knew their place if a person questioned the way things were…

“America’s Gift to My Generation” Amy Tan, a American writer said, “Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.” There's always someone that tries to take away our rights and destroy our foundation. For all generations we always had people that protected to our civil rights. The gift America gave to my generation was the free will to write. The freedom of writing is very limited around the world. But our…

through disease, and starvation but in different ways.. Jamestown and William Bradford both had some type of government. Jamestown had the House of Burgesses which was the first representative government and Plymouth was self government with the Mayflower Compact, which they agreed to obey all laws. These two colonies were both different but yet also very similar. Jamestown and Plymouth were the first two successful English colonies in North America. They were leaving their homes to have a…

Colonial America The lives of all humans work in a way similar to a clock. It is possible to separate life into different sections – religious beliefs, education, family life, social life, etc. – these are all fundamental to life. However, while each portion may seem to be separate from the next, the reality is that they must work together like the gears of a clock to keep things running smoothly. The Colonists of early America understood this important concept, and as a result, they did not…

The road to the American Democracy started off as early as the Magna Carta and Parliament. Before the times of these truly essential documents kings and rulers had free reign of all the resources and could pretty much do whatever they wanted and not have to worry about being sentenced to the stocks. The Magna Carta was made and declared by barons and nobles, partly because they were frustrated with the king always taking their men for endless crusades. In 1215, the Barons forced the king to…

The idea of self-government began in the Virginia and Plymouth colonies. In the Virginia colony, they developed the House of Burgesses and in Plymouth they published the Mayflower Compact as an initiative to organize, unite, and help their colonies flourish. Indentured servitude was a form of paying off debt or gaining passage to the new world through serving a term of around 5 years as a worker for a plantation owner. When the person completed their term they were supposed to receive land and…