Mayflower

1. Hofstadter 18-21 Richard Hakluyt “Discourse of the Western Planting” The passage depicts the arguments that Richard Hakluyt makes to convince the Queen of England to support Sir Walter Raleigh's and Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s colonization efforts. Through the passage, Hakluyt brings up the religion, economy, and power. He stresses that the colonies can be used as tools to convert Indians to Christianity, which has now been reformed due to the Protestant Reformation. Hakluyt also states that…

Ashley Schultz Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. In New York Times top ten best books of 2006, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Nathaniel Philbrick proposes to create a descriptive narrative of the Mayflower to better educate those that do not have enough information about the Mayflower. Philbrick tells the story of the Pilgrims from the escape in England all the way through the end of Kind Philip’s War. He…

the Mayflower Compact. It was painted by Edward Percy Moran in 1900. If You would like to go see it, it is located in Pilgrim Hall museum. In the painting is a scene from the Mayflower Compact where the men are signing a document that states Plymouth's government and rules. This was when democracy began. The major characters involved are Myles Standish helping William Bradford, who has his pen in his hand, William Brewster and John Carver, elected Governor, sit at the table on the Mayflower.…

My Mayflower ancestor is Isaac Allerton who was written to be a “proper saint,” meaning that he was a Leyden Separatist. He was a tailor in London at the time of his departure on the Mayflower. There are conflicting reports of Allerton’s age when he came over to the new world, which range from age 34 to 37. He boarded the Mayflower with his wife Mary, their three children, and his tailor apprentice, John Hooke. The individuals on the Mayflower were mostly farmers with limited resources to…

The Mayflower Compact On the Puritan’s journey to what they called New Jerusalem they face the challenges of starting a new nation. To meet these challenges they happened to set up a document that would establish what they believed was needed to be able to start a new era. This document was called “ The Mayflower Compact.” The goals outlined in the Mayflower Compact have been met. The creation of this nation has led to the glorifying of God and the spread of Christianity, thus the creation of…

day, 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…

In the “Mayflower”, Nathaniel Philbrick dissects the relationship between the Native Americans and the English settlers. He focuses on pointing out the honest truth of what caused King Philip's war, disproving what many of us know to be true. Philbrick does so by dividing up this story into four sections, discovery, accommodation, community, and war. Each part portrays the real events that led to the fall of the once unified community. Humanity is often questioned throughout the book on both…

Did you know the Mayflower Compact was the first written structure of government? "In 1802, John Quincy Adams described the agreement as “the only instance in human history of that positive, original, social compact” and it is popularly believed to have influenced the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution." Also it is believed that the name of the ship is what the pilgrims named the Mayflower Compact after. The Mayflower Compact was molded to keep the pilgrims together. Theses…

In Nathaniel Philbrick’s narrative Mayflower, he tells the story of the struggle and hardships of a group of people who cross the ocean to find personal and religious freedom in a new land. These people are the Pilgrims, but they are much different from the stereotypical pilgrims that we think of today. Philbrick tells the story of the Pilgrims struggle to survive in their first few months, their first meetings with and the rise and eventual fall of the alliance between the Native Americans…

written to inform people of the world’s somewhat controversial history. In many cases, bias finds its way into the words of many authors, allowing history- the kind that hides any painful truths- to be written by the winners. Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower follows the journey of the Pilgrims as the venture to the New World and create a destructive trail, leading to war with Native Americans. As in any story, especially one involving war, there are two sides, and Philbrick makes it clear what…