Mayflower

defeat the British for three reasons: their will to fight, the timing and situation, and foreign aid. The sparks for conflict began in Boston Massachusetts. Before Britain had royal governors in the colonies, the first settlers in Boston created the Mayflower Compact. This document planted the seeds for a self-ruling government, which is America’s political system today. Soon after King George assigned governors to the colonies, relations began to deteriorate. Britain’s national treasury was…

A primary source is a document that was created at the time of a historical event. Some examples include: the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, and the Mayflower Compact. All of these are documents written by an individual who was personally involved in a historical event. They are not telling us what other people witnessed; they are telling us what they witnessed. The primary source that I want to look at is a first-hand account of the battle of Lexington and Concord during the…

Virginia and Massachusetts being the first two of the thirteen colonies, had similarities in the way they started, but as time went on, their differences began to be known. Massachusetts and Virginia are different because Virginia had the more humid and warm climate, which lead to their great tobacco business and with their crops. With all of the commodities fluctuating Virginia thus had an abundance of slave labor, much more than the Northern colonies, such as Massachusetts. Massachusetts was…

Thomas Jefferson wrote in January first of 1802 a message to the Danbury Baptist association stating, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State” (Jefferson 1802). The “wall of separation between church and state” has been implied in the 1st amendment, though that…

The colony had become a safe haven for Catholic persecuted in England however; tensions ran high when the Protestant planters began to resent Catholic landlords. In the hopes of protecting the Catholics of the region, Lord Baltimore II signed the Act of Toleration in 1649. The Act would actually put more of a limit on religious freedom as it stipulated the death penalty to those settlers who denied the divinity of Jesus. Georgia - reasons for development- Georgia was developed to serve as a…

documents, mainly the second one which is religion. In documents such as the Mayflower Compact, Magna Carta, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, you can find that God is stated in all three. God is said to be the ruler above all in a way and in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, people were even required to believe in him…

This essay will examine two documents, John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (1645) and Roger Williams, Letter to the Town of Providence (1655). Both of these documents express opposing views of liberty through the eyes of John Winthrop and Roger William. While both were Puritans who emigrated from England to America in search to worship and govern as God intended, John Winthrop sought to develop a society in which government and people would work together to glorify God,…

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” This statement is similar to the thoughts of Hammurabi hundreds of years ago. In American history, important documents such as the Declaration of Independence, The Mayflower Compact and The United States Constitution were all written out clearly and the people were educated regarding the rules and the laws. By Hammurabi writing out the laws it set a standard for future generations to properly communicate with…

Some people are lucky enough to be passed down a family name or a name of any significance, I am not one of those people. After interviewing family members and questioning how the idea of my name and how it came to be I found out that my mom wasn’t very creative, at all. Despite the lack of creativity from my mom creating my first name I found out more about the meaning of it along with the origins of my last name, the year 1999 was filled with important and memorable moments that have shaped…

Spice Trials and Trips There were all these spices: turmeric, star anise, masala, mingling in hot air with the slightest differentiation, but still melting together in one pungent curry. The bright, orange-red chicken with the thick, gloopy sauce, paired with a fluffy piece of roti to wipe the whole plate clean was my siren song. My palate was already satisfied by the aroma the food was steaming with, but I had to ask: “There isn’t too much spice in this, right?” “Oh, you can handle the…