Province of Massachusetts Bay

the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They mainly consisted of people from England who were looking for religious freedom. These people were persecuted for their beliefs, so they wanted religious freedom, or at least religious tolerance. The first group of people that tried to live in New England struggled to survive. Native Americans had to help the settlers by teaching them how to grow crops such as corn. Later, in the 1630’s, a larger, more developed group of Puritans landed in the Massachusetts Bay.…

Early English exploration and colonization resulted in the movement of people to the New World. The colonies were made up of different groups of people whose lifestyles varied. However, the colonies in North America were established for either religious or economic purposes. The New England and Mid-Atlantic settlement areas had their own unique characteristics that connected and separated their religious, economic, and political developments. To begin with, the New England and the Mid- Atlantic…

Chesapeake started growing two different identities. People left their homes with family and all ,then they embarked on a journey to the new world. Some people went to the north for religious freedom, while some went south on a quest to find money. Massachusetts and New England were both just two regions on a map but over time things started to happen and people started to flood in. Some people went up north to New England because they wanted religious freedom. King Henry VIII got rid of the…

The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1693. Salem is a Puritan community meaning they were members of a group of English Protesters who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England. They sought to reduce and conduct forms of worship. It was a very restrictive society although Puritans fled England to escape religious persecution. They came to America to establish a society founded around religious intolerance. Children and adults were expected to act and behave under the same set…

Mason and Gorges divided the land in 1629, Mason taking New Hampshire and Gorges taking Maine. In the 1640s, Massachusetts got too big for it’s britches and took control of New Hampshire, then parts of Maine in the 1650s. Judges ruled against Massachusetts in 1979, so New Hampshire became a royal colony. Maine was incorporated into Massachusetts in 1691. After New York was claimed for the English, the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers was given to two men, Sir George…

The Voyage The ship groaned as the waves desperately pushed at its bow. As I lay in the darkness, I could feel warmth radiate from the woman slumped over beside of me. Men were yelling above deck, but their shouts were blurred out due to the crashing waves. The sounds began to fade as my vision grew blacker, then I woke up. As soon as my eyelids shot open, I heard people screaming. I staggered up, immediately regretting the choice. The room swayed as I struggled to stay on my feet. This was…

the bible and practice their religion freely. The famous ship on which they sailed across the Atlantic in 1620 was called the Mayflower. After a rough journey, the settlers finally arrived in Cape Cod. This peninsula, that today is a part of Massachusetts, lies…

William Bradford was an original and longtime governor of the Plymouth Colony agreement. He was born in england.Bradford was among many of the passengers on the Mayflower's trans-Atlantic journey, and he signed the Mayflower Compact upon landing in Massachusetts in 1620. He was elected governor for thirty years straight after John carver died. Bradford helped make its legal code and eased a community focused on private subsistence agriculture and religious strength. Around 1630, he began to…

Essay #2 Roger Williams was a religious leader who founded the state of Rhode Island (qtd. in Williams). He practiced peaceful ideologies and respected those different from him. Even though he believed religion was important and it should influence everyone’s lives, Williams believed there should be separation between church and state. Religious freedom was important to him, and spirituality was something that greatly impacted his life. Because Roger Williams believed in religious liberty, many…

Doing God Service: The Excommunication of Anne Hutchinson In the summer of 1591, a threat to the Puritan faith would be born in the small town of Alford, Lincolnshire to nonconforming puritans, Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden. Anne Marbury, raised during the persecution by Queen Elizabeth and James I of the Catholics and separatists, was no stranger to religion. Anne’s childhood would be filled with daily prayers, Bible reading, and the education of maternal duties taught to her by her…