Plymouth Colony

William Bradford and Edward Winslow’s Mourts Relation is a first account experience of what the passengers of the Mayflower, a British vessel which landed in present-day Plymouth , Massachusetts in 1620, experienced on the grounds of what they assumed was going to be an abandoned piece of land . It documents the exploration of many different spots that they stumbled upon such as camps, burying grounds and villages. The first encounter as said in Mourts Relation sets the platform for what most…

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…

In the late 1400s, when Christopher Columbus stumbled across North America, the world was altered. Many countries established colonies, but the only ones that stuck were the English colonies. Jamestown was first, and 12 others followed. Everyone had different reasons for migrating and the culture of 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…

The Life and Death of Pontiac: A Story of Trial and Error Writing about the Pontiac Motor Division represents an opportunity to grieve for their untimely death, which occurred in 2010. I spent the first decade of my automotive career working for a Pontiac dealership and this wasn't my only connection with the company. After five years of saving I purchased [a used 1979 Anniversary Edition Trans Am]. Powered by the last of the 6.6 L big block Pontiac 400 engines this special car made me a…

Business Communication Q1. Develop and define the organisational Culture that you require in the hotel. How will you build and measure this culture? Organisational culture is defined as the values and practices that add to the novel social and mental environment of an organisation. The culture of an association incorporates its desires, encounters, logic, and qualities that hold the organisational culture together, and is communicated in its self-image, internal workings, cooperation’s with the…

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 wider variety of products to trade. Plymouth colony established the Mayflower Compact, which…

Plymouth, a Colony to be Remembered In the 1600’s, England was settling in what is now known as North America. They came for political and economical reasons with the intent to colonize. England had two settlements in the New World, Plymouth and Jamestown, that were particularly successful in their own ways. But, overall, which one was more successful? If success means achieving the goal they had set before them, than Plymouth was the more successful colony because of the choice of settlers who…

104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies, English settlement in North America was born. Born in 1580 in Willoughby, England, Smith left home at age 16 after his father died. He joined volunteers in France who were fighting for Dutch independence from Spain. Two years later,…

quarrels. A perfect example would be that which occurred in Jamestown, a colony established in 1607. Established for the sole purpose of finding gold, Jamestown was funded by the Virginia Company. Not knowing much about farming, many of the colonists died of starvation. The Powhatan tribe took pity on the Englishmen and decided to offer them food in order to survive. Jamestown is one of the most well-known first colonies and is even the subject of a twisted version of it’s founding in a…

I get the impression that they didn’t treat the natives horribly, but like the French, they did not view them as equals either. From what the book says about colonists being reliant on natives, particularly relying on Tsenaccommacah corn, it is clear that they were trading. They at least had a working relationship. Later, when the Virginia Company demanded that Powhatan become a vassal a James I and he refused starting five years of altercations, this seemed like a clear sign that they did…