Plymouth

be more God-based and now, on the Sabbath day where they believe in praying throughout the whole day, people are going to be playing sports and other games with one another. The Puritans became so furious that in 1620, Puritan separatists founded Plymouth Colony on Cape Cod Bay in North America. Even with the previously present religious turmoil in England, he stirred up even more bickering between religious groups. King James I was very intrigued by religion and scholarship, which was his great…

Dutch observer stated that the Indians, prior to the arrival of the Christians, “were ten times as numerous as they are now, and that their population had been melted down by this disease, whereof nine-tenths of them have died”. Even the Governor of Plymouth colony stated that the lord was “sweeping away the great multitudes of the natives” (Strayer, 407), demonstrating that from all different perspectives there was clearly an enormous drop in the native population attributed to…

Native Americans have been overlooked when dealing with Colonial history due to a lack of evidence and bias. Early historians did not have access to evidence that came directly from Native Americans. Most of the evidence came from journals, diaries and other forms of record that belonged to the colonists, which described their encounters with Native Americans. This lack of evidence leads to pro-European bias because early historians only had the Europeans’ perspectives. The exploration of new…

Economic Transformation While researching texts written about manufacturing in the 1800s, I found several authors who published literature about how one man contributed to the transformation in economics. These authors express the importance in his work and how modern manufacturing has expanded, due to his innovation. Modern manufactory and the economic transformation can greatly be credited to Eli Terry. During the Revolutionary War, “Connecticut was the epicenter of clock-making in the United…

a small state that had a land area of approximately 10,000 square miles. It stretched across most of the north eastern part of the country. How did Massachusetts break into so many different little pieces? In a1620 the Pilgrims came and landed at Plymouth Rock, in 1629 the Puritans came and landed at Salem. The two groups merged and spread out across New England. It wasn’t long before they started bickering with each other and disagreeing on their beliefs. Their faith begins to fracture and the…

The Puritans faced many trials and persecutions, the hardest part was trying to stay alive. These puritans stood up for what they believed in and did not ask questions and they undeniably had outstanding faith. In the end It’s what they believed in that pushed them to survive. It all began with the corruption of the Catholic church and when Thomas Cartwright (An English Puritan) wanted to reform the church. In 1590 Thomas was arrested for trying to reform it. Thirty years after that the…

The Effect of Religion in the Early United States Religion has been a part of America from the start. Years before the country was even born people used the land in North America to escape strict religious laws and regulations in England. Religion had much to do with the shaping of the United States, and not always in the best way. Puritans were a religious group that sought to purify the Church of England (Foner Give me liberty!: an American history A-94). The Puritans themselves did not…

different than modern era. At first the English were trying to find a river to the Indies, however no river was found. Instead they settled down and build colonies. The English colonies started around 1607 with Jamestown the most famous of them and Plymouth colony. Many other ones also started. However, there weren’t just English colonizing the east coast, French, Dutch, Irish, Scottish, and even Swedish colonies started popping up. Eventually the British controlled most of current east coast on…

presence on the Atlantic coast by 1650. Jamestown, Virginia, was the first colony that was founded back in the early 1600’s (Fausz, 2007). A lot of the settlers came to the New World to escape the religious persecution. In 1620 the founders of Plymouth Massachusetts were supposedly the Pilgrims (Quinn, 1971). The Native Americans helped and assisted the colonists to thrive in both Virginia and Massachusetts. Corn was a big asset that kept the colonists from starving in Virginia, and they…

In 1633, the English Puritans settled at Plymouth and begun expanding into the Connecticut River Valley. The Puritans had one obstacle to their expansion: the Pequots. This war was a mix of numerous conflicts between the colonists and the Indians such as disputes over property, livestock, hunting…