Winthrop, Massachusetts

‘City Upon an Hill’ – When John Winthrop gave his “City Upon a Hill” sermon, the Puritans were still making their way toward the New World. During this time, the Puritans were escaping pressures in England and wished to be able to practice their religion and live under their ideals without the oppression they faced in the Old World. Winthrop’s sermon allowed the Puritans to remain hopeful about their future endeavors in the New World and that their efforts would not be lost. Furthermore, this…

governmental practice of Democracy. Everything is run by the colonists themselves. They believe in “togetherness” which shows a series of strong government discipline. This practice of a democratic structure was somewhat influenced by the Massachusetts Bay governor, John Winthrop. (DOC.D). The government came up with articles of agreement. (DOC.D). This article indicates the idea of democracy. “everyone” would have a portion of land and home. In the Chesapeake, only the wealthy white people…

accomplishment, but John Winthrop proved that he was capable of gathering people, taking them to a new country and settling in a town. John Winthrop was a good leader. He was raised in a wealthy family and his father was an excellent businessman. Winthrop was following into his father’s footsteps which lead to taking over his father’s business. Attending college at the age of 17 converted Winthrop into a great leader and noble hard worker. Having these characteristics really helped Winthrop to…

Edmund S. Morgan was a biographer that sought to explain the complexities of Puritan society(1628-1680 ). His book, The Puritan Dilemma; The Story of John Winthrop gives the reader insight as to where American exceptionalism comes from-by discussing the threats the Puritans faced towards their communal ideas. Edmund S. Morgan boundlessly talks about the Puritan paradox of individualism and how it affected their society. In order to understand this paradox one must understand where the Puritans…

From the very beginning of American history to the current day United States, equal opportunity has evolved to further incorporate more and more groups of people. With every step in the right path, there also seemed to be a backstep and vice versa. Starting from the beginning, the first major era in the American past was the Colonization and Settlement Period, approximately 1607-1750. During which settlers broke away from Britain but became confined within their villages and towns. The next era…

revelations of the sciences and evidence of the divine found in nature. Henry David Thoreau is well-known for being an American philosopher, poet, and environmental scientist during the nineteenth century. (Furtak, 2017) He was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817, and spent most of his…

oppressive rules.The Scarlet Letter shows his attitude toward these Puritans of Boston in his portrayal of characters, his plot, and the themes of his story. The early Puritans who first came to America in 1620 founded a precarious colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. While half the colonists died that first year, the other half were saved by the coming spring and the timely intervention of the Indians. These first settlers were followed ten years later by a wave of Puritans…

It was instead a far-reaching reform movement with diverse and even conflicting tenden¬cies. The Separatists who established Plymouth Plantation did not see eye-to-eye with their cousins at Massachusetts Bay, who some¬times took as short a way with dissenters as the hated Archbishop Laud. Another dissenter, Roger Williams, moved on to found Rhode Island, a colony which eventually produced, according to Vernon L. Parrington, “a theory of the commonwealth…

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, initiated colonization by Europe in the New World when he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. English and Spanish colonies grew to become very different from one another with frequent similarities. The Spanish colonies and New England greatly differed in terms of control by a European government, were both vastly similar and extremely different in terms of religion, and were largely similar in terms of treatment of indigenous…

similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on religious freedom from the Church of England. What makes them similar is that they both came to America to start a new life with hopes of being prosperous and healthy. Southern Colonies When you…