Mayflower

Unlike Puritans, they postulated that each congregation should be ruled by its membership and rejected any Christian ritual. One congregation from this separatist group, The Pilgrims, aboard the Mayflower ship, landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, founding the second most prosperous English colony in America after Jamestown, Virginia. The Pilgrims’ hazardous enterprise set up a safe place far away from their mother nation, where Puritans were…

persuasion in the chance of opportunity. Land, wilderness, gems, and more are laid throughout the America’s waiting to be claimed. Ten years later new settlers arrive 700 km north of Jamestown in a place they named Plymouth on a boat named “The Mayflower”. Driven by religious oppression they set out for a life of their own. It is proven quickly that the last of troubles is not done with the boat…

to the settlements. Abruptly these harmless ideas transition into serious inquires of the process for American colonies to conclude all governmental ties with Great Britain. Thus pushing past the already in place self-government documents of the Mayflower Compact to begin constructing a constitution written by second, third and even fourth generation colonists. Famously tag-lined “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” (Lincoln,1836) by none other than Abraham Lincoln during…

hoping to escape religious persecution that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the New World. Most students will have no idea that St. Augustine was actually the first European settlement in the American mainland, and not the good ol’ Mayflower that sailed across the Atlantic. In fact, the association with Plymouth and the Thanksgiving holiday is the only reason why this event has so much significance (Loewen 84-85). Textbooks devote pages to events such as this, but may overplay the…

Thomas Jefferson, along with the second Continental Congress, used great care to ensure that both words and the ideas professed in the Declaration of Independence were precise and symbolic. Upon examination of the list of King George III’s grievances committed against the American colonies appears the term “our constitution.” The reference to “our constitution” is not to a singular written constitution as it may be understood today; it is much more complex. The Continental Congress’ reference…

Biblical Israel and the United States are different in many ways. They are diverse in their culture, geography, time period, and even location. One is located in the Middle East and the other in North America. They are very different, yet they are alike in many ways as well. Biblical Israel and modern United States have turned away from God, and the evidence that proves that are very similar in both countries. Biblical Israel and modern United States were both biblically based societies…

The definition of a Puritan is a person who is strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so (Dictionary.com).The Puritans believed certain rules that have to do with their religion, one of those rules was that God had formed a unique agreement with them. They believed that God expected them to live according to the Scriptures, to reform the Anglican Church, and to set a good example that would cause those who had remained in England to change their sinful ways. Many sermons were…

Imagine that you are on your own, starting a new world like the Pilgrims did, what would your first impulse be? Would it be to create you perfect world, with no rules set in place, or would it be to create order and have strict rules? When the Pilgrims landed, they had to set up a place to live, and they had to start over again from scratch, starting with government and such. Jim Jones started off with the idea of a place where everyone could come and feel welcome, but when his ideas became too…

Become a Beekeeper? The honeybee is the epitome of hard-working, efficient, and self-sacrifice. Americans have a long love affair with the honeybee. The Virginia Company of London sent beehives to the Governor of Jamestown a year after the Mayflower arrived in America (History.org), furthermore; Americans consumed 410 million pounds of honey in 2010 (Honey.com). Honeybees are responsible for one out of every three bites of food we put into our mouths (Vanishing, @ 2:25; Honey.com).…

If I was a poor uneducated white twenty-five year old male from a farm family in england around 1730 and I was given the choice to settle in one of the following; the New England, the middle, or the southern colonies, I would choose the New England. I would choose this region mainly because eliminating the south as a place to settle is easy because of how difficult life was there compared to New England. Environmentally, the climate of the New England Colonies were much more cold than middle…