“Plymouth Plantation.” There these new settlers tried to replicate the villages and communities of England. Without assistance from the local Native Americans‚ the Pilgrims would not have survived in the New World. “The Great Migration” The Puritans‚ a much larger and wealthier group of religious reformers‚ wanting to escape the tyranny of King Charles I‚ established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Under the leadership of John Winthrop‚ they sailed for the New World to create a better society
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resources included fish and waterways. Lumber was also abundant‚ as well as furs‚ seeing as the settlers were able to participate in Canadian fur trade. The New England population started with 102 puritans on Plymouth Rock‚ which then turned into 42 after the first winter. The second group of settlers was the puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. There were 1000 of them. Other types of
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purely selfish‚ but the way society had made it for them made their only way to actually have some political power was to make an accusation. “No wonder that they [women who experienced hardship] used their temporary power and prestige to attack…the Puritan establishment which taught its members to accept unquestionably their fate handed down to them by god.” These women were essentially oppressed into a specific role and those that went against it were either the ones doing well that were accused and
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Religion has affected the human in many ways; rules‚ traditions‚ culture patterns‚ morality‚ etc. The most powerful and important role that religion plays is that how it controls the human. I believe that religion has created conflicts between people including whole countries. Religion has the societal effect of dividing people into "us" and "them". This unfortunately has the same characteristics as any other form of discrimination‚ such a as racialism. Then‚ it would come very easy to consider "us"
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The Northern and Southern colonies had many similarities between the years of 1607 to 1763‚ but the idea that they were more similar than different is vastly incorrect. The economy in the Southern colonies was based off of planting and slave labor‚ which was very common‚ while land in the Northern colonies‚ for the most part‚ was not fertile enough to support planting. Another difference between the North and South was that government and the church had very close ties in the North‚ compared to a
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around their natural harbors. Cities such as Philadelphia‚ New York‚ Charleston‚ and Baltimore prospered as seaports and commercial centers. Puritans founded New England‚ and many northern colonists practiced the Puritan religion. The middle colonies were in large part Quakers. The colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a retreat for the Quakers. Religion in the southern colonies was not practiced with the enthusiasm of the northern and middle colonies. Most colonists in the south
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tolerance. Incidentally‚ Penn had included a bill that addresses human rights in the framework of the Pennsylvania government‚ but shockingly‚ the bill failed to address the issue of slavery. Due to the shortage of labor in the New World‚ the English Quakers‚ including Penn himself‚ who had settled in Pennsylvania decided to purchase slaves that were brought from Africa‚ to help cultivate and the develop the colony. And for about four years‚ slavery thrived in the Pennsylvanian
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economic hunger. In England‚ clashes between Catholics and Protestants‚ brought upon by the establishment of the Church of England in 1531 by King Henry VIII‚ placed many in complete disarray. The Separatist‚ befittingly termed‚ were a group of puritans sought out an escape from the institutionalize corruption and rituals practiced by both faiths. They believed solely in the authority of the Bible‚ and viewed unfounded rituals and means to reach salvation as corrupt. They also believed in society
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1608‚ Puritan Separatists who wished to leave England could not legally do so. 9. In 1620‚ the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America were Christian missionaries. 10. Compared to King James I‚ King Charles I’s treatment of Puritans was more hostile. 11. The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay Company carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century. 12. The Massachusetts Bay Puritans created a colonial "theocracy". 13. The Puritan founders
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Anglican‚ but also Puritan‚ Presbyterian‚ Separatist and Catholic‚ was very different from the enforced Catholic conformity of Spain. While the English government did not accept all these groups‚ quite a few flourished within the country. When the king began persecuting the varied religious groups present in the country‚ many immigrated to America. The diversity begun in England continued in the colonies: New England was Puritan; Maryland was Catholic; Pennsylvannia was Quaker; the Southern Colonies
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