Of Plymouth Plantation

Is Anne Bradstreet rebelling against traditional Puritan/Pilgrim values? Anne Bradstreet was a premiere poet in young America and paved the way for both past and modern day poets to express themselves with limited fear of the consequences. Despite living in a community that was not too tolerant of anything outside the social norms, she composed elegant poetry that often challenged the minds, and sometimes broke taboo. Her versatility and ability to produce elegant and relatable poetry…

Clash with the Chesapeake - When they first arrived, they encoutered the chieftain Powhatan who asserted supremacy of the James river, he considered the settleres as future allies so didn't do much but tensions were still high. Once Lord De La Warr arrived he placed "irish tactics" against the indians basically rainding villages, burning houses, doing bad stuff to them. The marriage of Pocahontas to John rolfe ended this first anglo-powhatan war. But eventually the Indians fought back killing…

John Adams John Adams was born in 1735 and died at the age of 90. He was married to Abigail Smith and their son, Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States of America. He was a graduate of Harvard College and a prominent attorney in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the second president of the United States of America. Before becoming president, he had served as Vice-President under George Washington. John Adams was influential in stirring up the revolt against Britain rule in…

Native Americans Before European Exploration Before the arrival of the Spanish, French, and English in the western hemisphere the Aztecs and Incas were prosperous civilization. The Aztecs were militaristic and ended up controlling most of central Mexico. The Inca were more peace like and economic. They established a highly developed farming civilization in present day Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The Inca became a massive empire that stretched along the Andes and Pacific Ocean by the mid­…

Bradford and a few other explorers settled in Plymouth, since they were in exile from England. Their original land was territory in the Virginia area, but due to weather they ended up in Massachusetts. William later was elected Governor, shortly after they settled. In this time as a Governor, you were…

Bradford begins his literary work Of Plymouth Plantation by describing the religious persecution the Separatists endured at the hands of the Church of England; they were hunted, imprisoned, and watched. In order to attain the freedom of practicing their own religion, the Separatists first flee to…

The Marvels of Spain‒and America “The Marvels of Spain—and America” portion of “Beginnings to 1700” by Wayne Franklin portrays various point of views between the Old and New World. The Natives experienced “a colonial imitation of Europe developing before their eyes, complete with fortresses, horses... and much else that… could have only been found in Europe” while the settlers from Spain saw the land as opportune as they established slavery, tools, textiles, churches, and new foods as a…

From the beginning of time, many different cultures formed sundry religions and fashioned their own ideas about their specific God. These ideas and beliefs have been passed down from one generation to the next. One idea surrounding God that is comparable between the Native Americans and the Puritans include their belief that God exists as a Supreme Being. In this essay, I will convey how each group’s idea of God is different. The Puritans were a Protestant group during the 16th and 17th…

Nature continually influences Americans; therefore, most American authors work to understand what nature means to them and the people. In the 1600s, Puritans like William Bradford believe nature – the woods – was an unknown filled with the Devil. Nature to them did not represent God in a positive manner, but instead God created the Devil’s territory to punish the fallen. This perspective changed by the 1800s as Enlightenment philosophy grew. Transcendentalist writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson…

The Search for the Devine The search to find and please God has always been a goal of all Americans throughout the history of America. The first Puritan settlers believed that God was an unreachable and unapologetic deity whom controlled every aspect of their lives. They also believed that the devil lurked in the wilderness with the savages that lived deep within the forests. Throughout the course of time, the idea of only being able to worship God at church became obsolete with conventional…