Plymouth Rock

People traveling from England to the New World were about to embark on a month-long journey to a place that they had only heard things about but hadn’t actually been to. During this long journey, they willingly faced the likelihood of death, disease, and the unknown. These settlers were hoping to find new opportunities in the North America for themselves and for their country. Virginia was established in 1607 by Englishmen who were looking to make a profit from gold and silver. Life in Virginia…

The Difference Between Bradford’s and The Natives’ Beliefs Creation of all is always a speculation of how it actually began. William Bradford and the Native story tellers, Iroquois and Navajo, definitely have two different ideas of their creations, and who or what is the master of their creation. This is also who they worship, for instance Bradford believes in “Divine Providence,” and the Native believe in a that nature is their “divine one.” Neither belief is wrong or right, just shows how…

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.…

In “A History of Plymouth Plantation”, William Bradford distinguishes three significant Indians whose appearances assisted guidance for the Pilgrims through the New World. Several years later, Cyrus Dallin produced a sculpture in 1921 that signified Massasoit, one of those three Indians, as the Signal of Peace. Despite the fact that the time periods between these two documents are almost two hundred years apart, both documents displayed Massasoit as a peaceful figure that unified the Pilgrims…

establish their own government, they drew up an agreement on how they would run their new colony. This compliance became known as The Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact is significant because it was the first self-governing document for the Plymouth Colony and is the framework…

Recently, we have learned the dairy which wrote by 2 heroes during colonial time period: John Smith and William Bradford. They are such important figures, the story of them gives us a great picture of the arduous life in early America during 16 century. The two characters share a lot of common ground; but in the mean while they also have distinct differences. In the following couple paragraph we are going to discover and scrutinize their personal belief and creed, I believe we would see the…

In Joseph Brant’s oratory he discusses the various ways how the Six Nations demonstrated their loyalty to the British Crown. Some notable facts about Brant were that he was bilingual and literate, translated the gospel into Mohawk, he visited England twice and was well received by the court as well as befriended by the Prince of Wales (Calloway 208). Additionally, in one of his messages to the British, for example to Lord Germain, he reminds how the “Mohocks…have on all occasions shewn their…

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 allies. Eventually, Metacom…

and wanted more to do with this world. He is one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony is the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth. Massachusetts colony, like Plymouth, was mainly occupied by puritans except that Plymouth colony’s population never rose above 7,000 which lead it to be, after ten years, overshadowed by its larger neighbor, the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop was also a lawyer. The question is…

The first migration into the Americas were from Native Americans also known as many different groups of Indians. The Native Americans took most of the Atlantic Seaboard area. Woodland Indians were a group which were divided based on their language into three. The first were the Algonquin Indians that stayed in the areas of Canada all the way too North Carolina. The Muskogean took over Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Lastly were the Iroquois which controlled the Great Lakes region and…