Alexjandra Williams Indentured servants- immigrants who, at the time, could not afford to travel to North America. In agreement, they signed a contract where they agreed to work for 4-7 years for a master. Indentured servants became the original backbone of this country's economy. Trade and navigation acts- a series of laws that were setup to protect English shipping and secure money. As a result England became a successful ship building center and there were many new jobs. Mayflower compact- a document signed by 41 men on the Mayflower. They set up a government for the Plymouth colony. This document marked their difference from the Virginian colony. They wanted to start and new life Roger Williams- political leader who is best known …show more content…
Freedom of conscience- the idea that an individual can hold their own viewpoints. This is the right to follow your own beliefs in the subjects of religion and morality. Jonathan Edwards- one if Americas greatest preachers he was one of the vital people in the first great awakening. Salem witch trials- a series of trials and hearings, in Salem Massachusetts, where women were being accused of being witches and in alliance with the devil. These trails resulted in the murder of twenty women and more that 150 people were jailed. City on a hill- a city in mass hatchets bay, which John whintrop wanted to be a Puritan role model based on Christian principles. He wanted to make the puritans perfect role models. Williams Penn- a Quaker who founded Pennsylvania in the year 1682. He initiated the colony as a holy experiment based on religious tolerance. Peter Zenger trail- A newspaper editor who was arrested by the New York government because he criticized its actions very harshly. He helped to establish a free- press principle in the American law. King Phillips war- the most devastating war between colonist and Native Americans in New
Indentured servant - Someone who agreed to work for a number of years in exchange for the cost of a voyage to North America
was a preacher - known for his sermons like: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (God’s really mad and you’ll burn in hell forever)
Physical abuse by plantation owners towards both their servants and slaves was common. One account by Thomas Gates in a General Court of Colonial Virginia document about Elizabeth Abbot, an indentured servant, stated that “she had been sore beaten and her body full of sores and holes very dangerously raunckled and putrified both above her wast and uppon her hips and thighs” (General Court of Colonial Virginia). In fact, such abuse towards servants and slaves was so common that the state of Virginia had to make laws for such cases. Unfortunately, colonial governments did not consider corporal punishment illegal. Thus adding to the brutality endured by persons in captivity and servitude during the colonial era. “Moderate corporal punishment inflicted
The Salem Witch trials were when hundreds of citizens of Salem, Massachusetts were put on trial for devil-worship or witchcraft and more than 20 were executed in 1692. This is an example of mass religion paranoia. The whole ordeal began in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris. People soon began to notice strange behavior from Parris’s slave, Tituba, and his daughters. Many claimed to have seen Parris’s daughters doing back magic dances in the woods, and fall to the floor screaming hysterically. Not so long after, this strange behavior began to spread across Salem.
During the time of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, more than twenty people died in innocent death. All of those innocent people were accused of one thing, witchcraft. During 1692, in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts, many terrible events happened. A group of Puritans lived in Salem during this time. They had come from England, where they were prosecuted because of their religious beliefs.
The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. At this time there appeared to be an outbreak of witches. This started when the children of the Goodwin family begin having mysterious fits. The doctors, not knowing what had happened to the children, blamed it on witchcraft. From that point on many people were accused of being a witch and were killed. This occurred for many different reasons; either they were hanged for their crimes, crushed by stones for refusing to stand trial on their cases, or from waiting in the jail for so long before their case came up. As people began to investigate the Salem Witch Trials further they came up with two explanations; either the people of Salem were begin acted through by the devil or
The Salem Witch Trials were a time in history where people were wrongly accused of being witches. In the spring of 1692 the Salem witch trials began. During the trials women were wrongly accused of being witches. When accused of being a witch they were tortured, tested, put on trial, and most of the time executed if not put in jail. The townspeople tortured the accused witches in the most inhumane ways. This was a very dark and eerie time for the Puritans in Salem, Massachusetts (P., Shaunak).
The Salem Witch Trials took place in the summer and into the fall of the year 1692, and during this dark time of American history, over 200 people had been accused of witchcraft and put in jail. Twenty of these accused were executed; nineteen of them were found guilty and were put to death by hanging. One refused to plead guilty, so the villagers tortured him by pressing him with large stones until he died. The Salem Witch Trials was an infamous, scary time period in American history that exhibited the amount of fear people had of the devil and the supernatural; the people of this time period accused, arrested, and executed many innocent people because of this fear, and there are several theories as to why the trials happened (Brooks).
William Bradford (1590-1657) was probably the most famous Pilgrim that journeyed to Plymouth. Aboard the Mayflower, his peers chose Bradford as the future governor of the English separatist
The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620 on board the vessel Mayflower. The Mayflower Compact was signed by forty-one men on board the ship. The main person responsible for this was William Bradford. He said the reason for writing this is he was afraid of mutiny, and another reason was he thought they needed a form of self-government. This document was the first colonial agreement that formed a government by consent of the governed. The compact gave the settlers a plan to frame and enact laws for the general good of the organized settlement.
Indentured Servants helped the colonies progress their population. England at the time was over populated, and jobs were hard to find. So many people that could not afford the boat trip over to America offered themselves as to be an indentured servant for a period of time. This contractual term can last from between four to seven years. Many colonists preferred having indentured servants over slaves, cause they also helped ward off Native Americans from attacking settlers. The one big draw back of indentured servant was that they usually did not make it pass the first year of their contract.
The Salem Witch Trials are some of the most well known trials in American history. For over a year, twenty people most of which were women, were sent to be executed because they were prosecuted of performing witchcraft.
Accusations of witchcraft ran rampant in the 17th century colonial settlements in the United States. The individuals accused, mostly women, were put on trial and punished, if found guilty. The most well-known of such cases on public record are the Salem Witch Trials. Between February, 1692 and May, 1693, hearings and prosecutions were set up to deal with those accused of dabbling in the dark arts in the cities of Andover, Salem, and Ipswich, all in Massachusetts Bay. These trials came to commonly be referred to as the Salem Witch Trials because some of the most notorious cases were heard in the Oyer and Terminer courts in Salem. At the time, practicing witchcraft was considered a serious crime, and was often punished with serious consequences.
The Quakers, also known as the Society of Friends was religious group that founded Pennsylvania. William Penn, one of the leaders, worked with the Quakers, Indians and the other population to make an ideal world for him, his followers, and the other people in his environment. With his efforts, and the help of others, the Quakers left a huge impact on Pennsylvania and the entire nation.
Some Europeans either chose to be indentured servants, or were born into it as children. It was not a lifetime commitment. In exchange for their services, the indentured servants were provided passage to the colony (which they could not afford to pay for themselves), and were given food, clothes and shelter. After 1619, anyone paying for their own or another’s passage was given 50 acres of land – as a headright. This meant that people received 50 acres of land for each “head” they paid to have brought to the New World. The intention was to encourage people to come to the colony, but the system was a bit flawed. Wealthy people could travel ‘back and forth’ to England and, in turn, claim another headright – or 50 acres – each time they paid to