Unlike the Chesapeake region, the New England region was mainly inhabited by families with sons, daughters, husbands, and wives, who were, in most cases, looking to escape religious persecution from the English in England. As shown in document B, many of the immigrants coming into New England, were part of families. The New England region of colonies was mainly an area where families came to escape the hardships of England. During this time period, many puritans from England, who were being persecuted just because of their religious views, traveled to colonies such as Plymouth, Mass Bay, and eventually extend out to Rhode Island and Connecticut. The majority of the Puritans who came over from England chose to live in the Mass Bay area. The Mass Bay area was considered an area which was a safe haven for all puritan peoples looking to live by and support the laws set down by god, (document D). The Mass Bay area was quoted to be named "the city on the hill". This name, given by the puritans, had a symbolic meaning which represented the fact that the puritans thought that the city of Boston was to be looked up to as a role model society in which everyone should pay attention to its religious followings of god and the roles in which god plays in their society. They thought that because they were above everyone else, every other area…
Massachusetts: The settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony, led by John Winthrop, were Puritans seeking a religious haven for the prosecuted Puritans in England. They were originally a joint-stock company, but they created a representative political system that included a governor, council, and assembly. Although they were generally democratic, they did not tolerate other religions in their colony.…
Like the other groups from Europe that came over to the New World, the puritans came over primarily for profit at first. Then the puritans saw their opportunity to seek refuge from the harsh theocratic government to start their own utopia for only puritans, in the early seventeenth century. The puritans had the idea of growing a closely-knit Christian society. Although the puritans lived up to somewhat of an extent on creating a utopian political system, they didn’t live up to their vision of: building colonies that were socially weak, and having a harsh religious system.…
Next, the Dutch joined in on the colonization of the New World. The first Dutch Settlements were in Fort Orange, New Amsterdam, and Manhattan Island. New Netherland’s population grew as it drew refugees from Europe and the West India Company offered patroonships to wealthy Dutchmen to populate the area with farmers. However, there were a few conflicts with Native Americans around New Amsterdam, weakening the colony and making it seem like a wasted investment.…
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 by purifying English society and the Church from within.…
New Jersey was founded on 1664 by English colonists. Their major industry is iron working, lumbering and their major cities are Trenton & Princeton. This colony was named after Isle of Jersey in England and it became a state on December 18, 1787.…
The Puritans were one of the most radical groups that left England; they were extremely pious and wanted to create a safe haven for themselves to be able to practice their religion, beliefs, and ideals freely. Puritans main reason for immigrating to America was to create their "City Upon a Hill" , since they were persecuted in England for their beliefs, and because they wanted to reform the Anglican church. They didn´t immigrate for economical reasons, like many of their brethren did in the Chesapeake Bay colonies. Puritans instead wanted to create their model Christian society based on the principals of high morality, and strong family and community lives. Puritan society was based on certain morals and principals which enabled the Puritans to successfully establish a colony; these same morals and principals had a profound impact on the New England colonies in a similar way as well.…
Puritans began to come to North America for religious freedom when they were forced to leave England for their faith and some because they believed the church was dishonorable. Unlike Virginia, when people first began settling in Massachusetts Bay they migrated in families rather than alone. This cause Massachusetts Bay to have a large population which helped the colony to strive. The families normally lived in small a village unlike the plantation farms the colonist from Virginia lived on. Massachusetts Bay did not have as much of a need for slaves due to the fact that they had small farms rather than using a farm to make a living. Unlike Virginia whose church was the Church of England, their official church was Congregational/Puritan. Massachusetts Bay was more organized and successful due to the fact that they planned to make that their permanent new home. Eventually Massachusetts Bay became self-governed as to being controlled by England. This was different from every other colony including Virginia. Massachusetts Bay was founded due to the absence of religious freedom in England.…
Unhappy with the Church of England, the Puritans traveled all the way to the New World to create a society based solely on their religion. Their goals in this endeavor were to establish settlements in which they were governed by Puritanical religious scriptures and in which no other religion was practiced. As opposed to having laws and a proper Constitution as the United States now has, their law was to be strictly based upon the guidance of God. In their eyes, this would provide a safe place to practice their religion exactly as they wished and it would allow them to integrate their spirituality into the very backbone of the society. Though this seemed like the perfect type of society, it was flawed in several ways. The Puritans’ plan of…
However, in the New England area the settlers primary motive was religion. Mostly Puritans came to the New World seeking a haven after being discriminated in the Old World and because of their shared religious beliefs this allowed them to develop communities harmoniously, while having the same end goal, being a model for the world. The first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop, wrote A Model of Christian Charity and said, “knit together in this work as one man… community as members of the same body… a city upon a hill… the eyes of all people are upon us” (Doc.…
On the contrary of Virginia and Massachusetts colony, Massachusetts was successful in establishing a colony in the United States. It was explained, “Massachusetts had less disease, more kids, better relationship with Indians, better leadership, and better funding” (McNee 6/12/17). It depicts that they had a better opportunity on surviving due to the location of Massachusetts and were more ready than the Virginia/Chesapeake colony. Furthermore, they wanted to build a colony as the main reason of finding their own “religious freedom” (McNee 6/7/17) as Puritans. They wanted to spread their religion and develop a safe community where families can live in peace without any war or conflicts in their surroundings. In addition, they were also taught…
Puritanism was found by English Protestant leaders with the purpose of providing original unification of spiritual life, church and social life. Due to the fact that puritans in Britain were prohibited to attend the church, they had to move to New England and maintain their power over the continent. After establishment of their colony, the local authorities began to implement laws regulating human behavior in terms of drunkenness, swearing and gambling. This way, they hoped that the colony would build a new and reliable role model. In view of many scholars, although Puritan ambition to create the ideal model of society, based upon the establishment of a covenant with God, was initially rather promising, they did not firmly follow what they…
1636. Rhode Island. This was the fifth American colony founded by Roger Williams with the help of Anne Hutchinson. Roger Williams felt that the land of Rhode Island was being stolen from the Native Americans so he paid them and bought the land. Rhode Island is a chartered colony (self-governed). A charter is a written document from the ruling power of a country that had been given certain rights. Chartered colonies were written agreements between the King and the colonists, stating the part that they would have in the government and that nothing was to be changed without the consent of both sides. The charter established the rules of government, but Rhode Island was granted a great amount of freedom within those rules. “The Rhode Island Charter was a milestone in the move towards religious freedom when the King signed a charter guaranteeing that individuals were free to practice the religion of their choice without any interference from the government.” (Alchin). Even though many colonies became a royal colony from a charter colony, Rhode Island managed…
The puritan religion had very strict behavioral characteristics. It is said that Salem had a fear that the Devil had been trying to infiltrate the Christian community and had been giving certain people power to harm others in return for their loyalty. Puritans feared their religion was under attack and worried they were losing control of their colony. The political instability and threat to their religion created a feeling of uneasiness and discontent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. There was a consensus that the Devil had been the reason for all the hardships the colonists had faced.…
Originally, 900 Puritan colonists arrived in Massachusetts Bay; by 1640, they were 17,800 in number and in 1700, this had grown to 106,000. It was characterized by self-imposed isolation, religious exclusivity and the belief that people were individually accountable to God. The Puritans were responsible for the first free schools in America. They established the first American college, Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later on, Puritanism would lead to the Baptist and Congregationalist movements.…