Plymouth Colony

refers to the series of conflicts between the English colonies and the Wampanoag tribe. Native American leader, Metacom, was known to the English as King Philip. In 1675, three Wampanoags were executed by Plymouth officials. The natives retaliated by murdering English colonists. Metacom led the Wampanoags and their allies in war against Plymouth. Other colonies and tribes soon joined the fight and it became all out war. Victory was won after the colonies joined forces with Native American…

The pilgrims arrived on Plymouth and set up land on the Indians territory. The Indians were essential to the Pilgrims survival. The picture supports Our Republic because the Indians taught the pilgrims everything they knew, and the pilgrims did not have their colony together until years after they had arrived, and the picture does not portray that. The picture makes people believe the pilgrims put the first Thanksgiving together. The Indians are the ones who taught the pilgrims how to hunt,…

Narragansett is an English corruption of Nanhigganeuck, their actual name meaning "people of the small point." The Dutch used the shortened form of Nahican. Location Narragansett is located in Narragansett Bay and western Rhode Island the grand sachem who usually resided in the largest village. Their villages of medium-sized longhouses were usually large energetic and located on the islands on the islands of Narragansett Bay. They farmed extremely large fields of corn,beans,and squash.…

essential part of learning about such travels. John Smith’s The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Sumer Isles and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation recount the founding of two unique settlements. John Smith was an influential member of the Jamestown settlement. Further north, William Bradford assisted in founding the Plymouth settlement along with the Pilgrims. While these are not the only authors of earlier American travel narratives, certainly their books contribute an…

The texts La Relación, Of Plymouth Plantation, Huswifery, and The History of the Dividing Line show that a person’s outlook can be affected by many things, but the most contributing factors are often the most obscure; a person’s background, morals, and perspective can have a great effect on their opinions. In other words, someone who experiences something firsthand will have a much different and likely more positive view of the situation, and a person’s background and original morals have the…

Puritains of the time to leave their homes in hopes of freedom in the New World to pray and worship as they like, but many soon after lost focus on this original purpose and moved on to new ones. In the writings of Puritains such as, "Huswifery", "Of Plymouth Plantaion", and other works. you see the transformation from their original purpose, of free worship, for traveling to the New World, to newer purposes such as conversion of non-believers, wealth, and culture. While Puritains came to the…

it shows how woman was being sent so that the men in Jamestown could have wives. But the thing was that that the woman were only allowed to marry the rich plantation owners. The import of women was so important to Jamestown because it turned the colony into a more settled down with a long-term future. “It being our content to preserve families and to prefer married men over single…

of the Virginia. They were worse slaved in 1619 first slaved brought in Virginia. But overwhelmed the majority of worker are the vulnerable servant and people come over to the colony in huge number especially at the starving time, Pocahontas conflict is I think of the past. People are moving from England and coming to a colony of Virginia for the variety of reasons like many were in debt back in England, protestant and catholic conflicts, overcrowding and the hope for the opportunity in the new…

Although John Smith and William Bradford were instrumental to the founding and development of the colonies in the new world, their writings reveal differences in personality, with John Smith being arrogant and self-centered and William Bradford being focused on the greater community which ultimately makes them very different leaders. Smith’s, The General History of Virginia, makes himself seem like the hero of Jamestown, even if it meant stretching the truth. In his account he wrote, “committed…

William Bradford, author of “Of Plymouth Plantation” and part of the first wave of settlers to land on the new America once said, “All great and and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.” It was a great action to come to the new land and give up everything they had to escape their persecutors, which means that they will be accompanied by great difficulties. While these Puritans tried their best in their…