New Plymouth

religion and every religion is accepted, but that was not always the case when the Puritans tried to force their religion on the Indians. Religion is a touchy topic in our society today, but not as much as it was when the Puritans first came to the New World and tried to force the natives to their religion. This created a conflict that got so heated it was a cause of war. This conflict makes us wonder, who started the fighting? Did the natives do something to the puritans or did the puritans do…

John Winthrop’s Influence and Shaping of Puritan Society In the early 17th century, a group of Puritans came to the Americas from England to charter the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of Governor John Winthrop. Puritans brought--to what some in today’s modern standards may consider--intense ideology that dictated everyday life. John Winthrop praised those principles that rooted from English Calvinist beliefs in order to form a better community and inspired the idea of a “city on…

Mary Rowlandson and her use of David’s Psalms When the Puritans arrived in New England, they saw themselves confronted with a wilderness in which they wanted to found their “New Jerusalem”. In the Psalms of David, which describe his own spiritual “wilderness experience”, they found hope and consolation. It is not surprisingly then, that these Psalms appeared in the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. David’s Psalms appeared to be of particular importance to one Puritan…

these colonies showed that. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, their reasons for settling, their government structures, and their daily life/families and were very different and caused their societies to develop in very different ways. The people of New England and the people of the Chesapeake region settled for entirely different reasons. New England started when the Pilgrims traveled…

thing, to form a successful new town. Though out the next paragraphs I will discuss these differences and similarities, as well as why I think Massachusetts was the more successful colony. I want to start with Virginia because well, they settled first. To understand Virginia’s failures and successes, we first need to understand how and why it was settled in the first place. At the time, the English were in competition with the Spanish to conquer new territories and obtain new wealth. The…

Elements of Colonial Life in New England Economic Political Social Massachusetts Bay Colony was thriving as a result of the successful fur trading, fishing, and shipbuilding industries. This was made possibly by skillful settlers like John Winthrop, an affluent and educated settler who became the colony’s first governor. The Pilgrims arrived outside of the Virginia Company’s domain and therefore had no specific authority. In order to prevent chaos in the colony, Pilgrim leaders wrote and…

voyaged to the new world in search of religious freedom, glory and wealth. Early settlers chose to build their lives in different ways; two of the first colonies that arose in the new world were Plymouth and Chesapeake Bay. Plymouth and Chesapeake were alike in their forms of government, both used a representative approach that embodied the people. Both colonies relied heavily on slave labor to grow their economies. Economically, Chesapeake relied majorly on tobacco sales, while Plymouth had a…

Jamestown and Plymouth colonies both had their own reasons for settling in the new world. They had different ways of living which led to different successions within their colonies. While both Jamestown and Plymouth colonies thrived for a better way of life, the comparison and contrasts between their beliefs on government and politics, economy and trade, and Indian relations widely vary. Secondly, while both Jamestown and Plymouth colonies thrived for a better way of life, the comparison and…

century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully trusted? …

understanding the value social media has in regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than searching for it. Based on who you follow or who you’re friends with will determine what kinds of information pops up on your timeline. Because of things like Twitter, where news is easily accessible with real-time updates, there is a demand for instant news stories that quickly inform. Newspapers cannot…