unknown. Most historical accounts generally agree that Tisquantum was born on January 1st; curiously however the exact year is under debate but is circa the 1580’s. Tisquantum was a member of the Patuxet tribe‚ located in Eastern Massachusetts on Plymouth Bay. The Patuxets were a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy in which a head sachem (chief/political leader) presided over a number of lesser
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of social contract and the belief in covenants (also known as agreements)‚ amongst others. They believed that covenants not only exist between man and God but also between man and man. The Pilgrims covenants were communicated and adopted by other colonies in the old world. The covenants in the Mayflower Compact were popular and fair to everyone that the settlers agreed to form a government based on the Compact and to be bound by its rules. The Mayflower Compact is often described as America’s first
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Of Plymouth Plantation Traveled on mayflower from England to get to America and spread religion. Another ship broke down so they let those onto their ship. One guy was impure because he was making fun of them for being sick. He planned to throw those people overboard but he died of sickness himself and the England men tossed him over instead. They believed it was Gods doing for him not being pure. Ship had started to leak as the weather got bad. All of them decided to talk to the captain and
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family that he would die‚ and he did the next day‚ May 9‚ 1657‚ at the age of 68. 2. William Bradford was the head of the government of Plymouth. He oversaw the courts‚ the colony’s finances‚ corresponded with investors and neighbors‚ formulated policy with regards to foreigners‚ Indians‚ and law‚ and so had a very active role in the running of the entire Colony. 3. The Mayflower was anchored off Provincetown Harbor at the tip of Cape Cod‚ and while many of the
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The New England‚ Middle‚ and southern colonies of colonial America were similar because it was socially acceptable for males to go to college and learn about the bible but politically and economically these regions were extremely diverse. In the New England colonies‚ (Massachusetts ‚Connecticut‚ New Hampshire and Rhode island)‚ they were economically different because they were deeply connected into the triangular trade network that was linked to New England ‚ the Caribbean and the west
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English were one of the European powers that sought to build and empire in the New World in the 1600s. Jamestown and the Virginia Colony were founded by the Virginia Company of London which hoped to benefit economically from their investments. New Hampshire and New York were also founded for commercial reasons. On the other hand‚ Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony were founded by Separatists and Puritans who hoped to practice their religion freely. Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were founded
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established‚ the thirteen British colonies could be divided into three geographic areas: New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern. Each of the colonies had specific developments that made up what the regions were. Though there were many similarities in the development of the New England‚ Middle and Southern Colonies‚ they also had their differences allowing the colonists to choose a colony that fitted their needs. To begin with‚ one similarity was that all of the colonies were in some sort of industry where
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Chesapeake and New England: A Tale of Two Colonies England was late to the colonizing game‚ lagging behind both France and Spain. But when England did set foot in the New World it left its mark. The early English colonization of what is now America can be broken down into two main settlements‚ the Chesapeake colony and the New England colony. The Chesapeake colony‚ which originated as the Jamestown colony in Virginia‚ was settled in 1607. The Chesapeake colony wound up relying on tobacco as its main
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1. Anne Bradstreet—Puritan poet in colonial New England whose writings served as early public struggles against female treatment in that time period 2. Anne Hutchinson—Arguably the first American feminist who‚ despite living in an early Puritan colony‚ publicly called for gender equality 3. Antinomianism—A belief that emerged after the Protestant Reformation that Christians are free from any laws by their faith in God 4. Chesapeake Bay—The largest estuary in the United States that served as
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there belief of christianity‚ they were known as the puritans. They established towns such as the Massachusetts bay colony which became an important society in the 1700‘s. It was a new beginning for the colonies to grow‚ prosper‚ and worship and they did just that. Religion played a huge role in the early colonies especially the Massachusetts bay colony. The Massachusetts bay colony was established by congregationalists (puritans who wanted to reform the Anglican church from within). This began
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