Mr. Quincy Hunter

New York (New Amsterdam) original colonial purpose was a business endeavor for the Dutch company. The governing body (investors) of New York were not interested in religious toleration, free speech, or democratic practices. The actual director-general, leader of the colony, was viewed as dictatorial. A major source of New York’s’ wealth was whaling, fishing, and was a major focal point for selling enslaved Africans. A French Jesuit missionary noted that among New York’s settlers eighteen different languages were spoken. New York’s fertile soil was very good for farming and raising livestock. Great deals of Quakers were abused due to the lack of religious toleration of New York’s governing body. Massachusetts’s sole purpose was for the Puritans to escape from religious persecution. Puritans searched far and wide for a place to settle until they found Plymouth Rock. They started their colony on a much larger scale than any other colony with one thousand people. Massachusetts was the first permanent settlement for Puritans, but it was the West Indies that attracted more Puritans due to the great climate and fertile soil. John Winthrop was Massachusetts’s first governor and he too was also part of the Great Migration. The Puritans of the Bay colony thought that they were to be the model that God sought for all mankind. Winthrop thought that democracy was the cruelest form of government because he said, “If the people be governors, who shall be governed.” Although Puritans were viewed as extremely harsh and intolerable, they enjoyed the simple pleasures such as eating plenty, drinking often, and making love frequently. Rhode Island was created when Roger Williams was exiled out of Massachusetts for “having new and dangerous ideas”. When Williams reached Rhode Island his followers and a band of friendly Native Americans started a colony, began immediately exercising simple manhood suffrage. Rhode Island was a place for dissenters and those who’d been exiled by the