Mayflower

Captain John Smith wanted to colonize Virginia. He wrote about colonization to the people from England so they can all go to America. And William Bradford he went along with the passengers on the Mayflower's transatlantic journey. He then signed the Mayflower Compact to arriving in Massachusetts in 1620. He wanted to colonize to practice the religion of his and bring more people. They were the two significant features in colonizing America. Both hoped to bring more people by their writings…

movement of people who are not natives or do not have citizenship in United States. Immigrants came to America to be apart of a better economic cultural. In the 1600s, Pilgrims came to looked for religious freedom. They sailed from England on the Mayflower in 1620 arriving to Massachusetts. Pilgrims were not the only ones to immigrate to America. During the 17th to the 19th centuries, half million of African slaves were brought to America to do work such as crops and tobacco or cotton. The…

Much of my ethnic background comes from Europe. I don’t know much about my heritage on my father’s side I never really got to ask my father’s parents about their background. Though I’ve heard that there may be some Croatian on their side. Both my mother and father’s families come from a lot of the same countries as far as I know. My maternal grandfather was born in Pennsylvania. My maternal grandmother was born in West Virginia. My paternal were both born in Cleveland. My paternal grandmother…

towards America, because she realized that those hardships faced were useful and it taught her important American values. “And I, the last comer, had her share to give, small or great, to the making of America, like those pilgrims who came in the Mayflower” (Yezierska 105). In the end, her hard work propelled her to being a successful writer in America compared to being at a low place in…

He notes that in William Bradford’s Plymouth Colony, the settlers would rob Indians in order to survive throughout the harsh winter once they got off of the Mayflower. Diseases brought over by the Europeans also aided in wiping out many of the Native cultures living there as well; before the Mayflower, Europeans had already been exploring the Americas. These diseases would, therefore, have wiped out a vast amount of Indian cultures before many of the colonists ever arrived, skewing…

Since colonial times people have used the death penalty, European settlers from the Mayflower itself carried over the traditions of the British Empire. Executing those whose crimes were so severe that the governmental powers at be saw fit to end criminal’s lives. The first execution ever carried out was that of Captain George Kendall, his crimes? Spying for the Spanish. Through the ages treason has always been met with swift justice, in 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were tried and executed on…

The United States is known for its lengthy history and historical development as the country dealt with revolutions, wars, slavery, and other significant events. However, there are ten events that are truly significant to America’s history and development. The first event would be the creation of Jamestown. Jamestown was created in 1605 when two groups of merchants who had formed joint stock companies that combined the investments of small shareholders, petitioned King James I for the right to…

Documents and ideas that these early settlers established played a major role in the making of documents such as the Declaration of Independence that allowed us to have and stated our freedoms. One of these examples is the Mayflower Compact. It gave the idea that the people form the government and they should govern themselves. This was a major bedrock of American democracy. The charter that the group of Puritans brought with them to the New World in the 1630’s also gave the…

research my family tree. What I found was about 900 people, one of whom was a woman, who changed the world through different legal and political ways. When I started my family tree, I found that I am a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Mayflower Compact. That was the first time I found an ancestor of mine who had made a huge impact in the world through a legal and political way. When Hopkins signed to establish one colony he set the stage for a new country where people were free to…

“Eighteen married women came over on the Mayflower. Three were pregnant, and one if them gave birth to a dead child before they landed. Childbirth and sickness plagued the women; by the spring, only four of those eighteen women were still alive.” These women were not slaves but wives of the early…