Province of Massachusetts Bay

at least in the early days of the New England colonies, the colonists shared a common purpose, binding them together and creating a unique sense of harmony within the colonies. This harmony was spurred by John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in his “A Modell of Christian Charity” sermon he gave to his congregation encouraging them to support one another so as to be a model Christian city and inspire other towns to be like them (D1). (D1, D2, D4,…

In the 1600s, England’s two most prominent colonies in the Americas were busily evolving into disparate societies with different goals and social structures, even though the people who settled Massachusetts Bay, Virginia, and their surrounding colonies all emigrated from the same country. This difference in overall development occurred due to the contrasting motives of the colonists departing for New England and the Chesapeake. The people who would become New Englanders were motivated by the…

lose their jobs. With the loss of jobs and lost hope of acquiring any land, the British set their sights on the New World. Many journeyed across the Atlantic to populate a variety of areas, ranging from the West Indies to Virginia and Massachusetts’s Bay. Although both the Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by the white English, by 1700 both evolved into distinct societies due to economic,…

King Henry VIII had left the Church of Rome, and thus formed the Church of England. However, many English Calvinists believed that the Church of England needed to be more reformed. This group of Calvinists devised a Protestant movement, called Puritanism, that sought out to purify the Church by removing all Catholic influence. With this intention, the Puritans repeatedly asked King James to grant more reforms, but he felt that the Puritans threatened his authority, for that reason he rejected…

During the early 1600’s, the Puritans came to the New World. They traveled to the New World from their original home of England to escape the religious laws of the King. Their goal was to create their own religion in which they could have strict laws about committing sins such as lying, stealing, and adultery. An early puritan woman, by the name of Hester Prynne, defied these laws. She was an independent and proud single mother, despite being burdened with her dark sin of Adultery. The outcome…

INTRODUCTION There were huge clashes on religion which were going on in America and in the late 17th century, these clashes between political and religious groups came to an end which led to the revolution of 1688. This marked to an era where Church of England ruled as the Church of the country. Other religions such as Catholicism, Puritanism were suppressed. Everyone started practicing one religion. But it had some spiritual dryness among believers. Religion was considered to be a past time…

This essay will examine two documents, John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (1645) and Roger Williams, Letter to the Town of Providence (1655). Both of these documents express opposing views of liberty through the eyes of John Winthrop and Roger William. While both were Puritans who emigrated from England to America in search to worship and govern as God intended, John Winthrop sought to develop a society in which government and people would work together to glorify God,…

During the 17th century, after the discovery of North America, Europeans immediately began the journey of colonizing the area. Emerging from these newly established colonies were New England and the Chesapeake. These two areas were built along the Atlantic Coast, housing hundreds of European settlers. However, as the people of New England and the Chesapeake began to construct societies of their own, the differences between the two colonies escalated. The differences between the European…

2. One of the key differences between William Bradford's and Thomas Morton's view is their purpose for coming to the new land in the first place. Bradford came with his people to escape religious persecution and to found a religious colony. He sees the events that occurred on the ship over and in the establishing of the colony as proof of divine's hand in these plans pressing him on, such as when God smote the man who mocked them for their faith. On the other hand, Morton and his people came…

they also believed that, as wives and mothers, women were to tend to their husbands hand and foot and “provide” the next generation of puritan children. The role of the modern puritan mother was of upmost importance in the Massachusetts Bay colony, and the women of Massachusetts Bay were considerably healthy in comparison, and yet, childbirth was still a dangerous affair for women. In Puritan New England, any woman having over five children faced a one in eight chance of dying in childbirth.…