Mayflower

The British colony Virginia (Jamestown) was established in 1607 and 22 years later the Massachusetts Bay was established. There are many events and factors in history that helped in the founding and in the development of the colonies of Virginia (also known as Royal Colony), and Massachusetts Bay (also known as Charter Colony). They were both British Colonies, but the reasons they came were for different. Between these colonies there are many similarities and differences in the founding and…

had come by previously that devastated the Wampanoag. The Wampanoag interpreted it as an invasion of hostile spiritual power. Weaken by the epidemic, they lived in fear of their rivals, and was of urgent need of alliances. In December 1620, the Mayflower vessel from England arrived on the coast, carrying a few English people who left England because of radical religious view who…

some 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…

actually a rock. Plymouth is a charming New England town with lots of sightseeing opportunities too numerous to mention. We toured the Mayflower II that is anchored in Plymouth Harbor. The tour features people dressed in Pilgrim clothing and acting out the voyage and landing of the Mayflower. When you actually get to tour the ship, you realize just how small the Mayflower was and how it could hold over 100 people. There was one embarrassing moment when one of the actors was telling us how sick…

The United States Constitution was written over the course of nearly four months and quickly became the most important document in U.S. history. Many of this historic document’s ideals can be found in two very important documents from the past. Both of these documents contained public rulers transferring their power to the people. Another major influence in the U.S. Constitution was the philosophers during the time period that is often referred to as “the age of enlightenment.” Also during that…

understandably, many of us have nontraditional first or middle names. When my youngest sister was born, we all scratched our heads at the name Tilley. Excited to share her love of history, she explained that Elizabeth Tilley came to America on the Mayflower with her parents, who died in the first winter. Being homeschooled, my mother was able to teach us history through field trips all over the east coast. While many public schooled students were taught white-washed history, my siblings and I…

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…

There were Thirteen colonies that survived and came together to form the United States of America, those colonies are, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. There are other colonies such as Roanoke, where the settlements failed to survive and all the settlers died. In the case of Roanoke, no one knows what happened to it’s colonists. All the colonies had their own…

England to avoid persecution from the “Millenary Petition” that was made in 1604 by King James the First. After 12 years pass and the year 1620 rolls around the group of Puritan separatists from the town of Scrooby return to England and board the Mayflower hoping to find and pursue a new life in the “New World” while not even knowing what…

Long before any blood was shed in the Revolution, Americans were establishing ideas in their minds concerning breaking away from the British Empire. As early as 1774, the Colonists met in the First Continental Congress in response to the British taxation and limitation of Colonial Representative Government. As stated by Benjamin Franklin in his draft of a resolution for the congress, “there is a manifest defect in the constitution of the British Empire in respect to the government of the…