Intro
In 1628 a group of settlers called the Puritans came to America. Their goal here was to create a successful settlement. They achieved this by making peace and starting wars with the Natives. Have a strict Religion and set of rules. And a very interesting daily life.
Solicitation with the Natives
A Peaceful Start
Unlike most settlers, the Puritans were not focused on enslaving the Natives in New England. Their focus was more on build their communities into big successes and having an organized village. In Fact they want almost nothing to do with the Natives. They had heard of previous settlers starting argument with Natives and then a few settlers would be killed by Natives. On the other hand the Natives wanted a group of people with the
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Since they did not see the Puritans make any gestures of any sort, not even a bad one, they Natives decided to take communication into their own hands. Once the Puritans reached the shore of New England the Natives immediately greeted them with friendly actions. They showed them around the land. Though they couldn’t communicate very well they made their best impression. With no reaction from the Puritans the Natives decided to share some of their items with the Puritans. They gave Puritans food and tools they used. They lended them beads and shells which was used as money. With this the Puritans could trade beads and shells for fur and hide with other tribes. The Natives also gave them the skills they would need to survive on the land. Now loaded with the gifts from Natives the Puritans decided to give back. It was only fair to give a gift or two. Not being as generous or kind as the Natives the Puritans gave them 3 things, disease, whisky and firearms. They also had demanded that they Natives give up their freedom and were to work for them as slaves or to be trade to the West Indies. Even though they wanted nothing to do …show more content…
They Natives weren’t going to stand there and watch their civilization being drowned out by a group of settlers and colonists. Their people were being enslaved some being sold to the West Indies, others being put to work in farms and plantations. The Puritans were pushing out the Natives and moving into their land. They were chopping down their forests and building houses and factories. They were expanding their area because the King wanted to expand his Kingdom. In 1637 a puritan man was killed by neighboring tribes and this a way to show they Puritans the Natives were not going to stand for any of the Puritan’s ways. Once the puritans saw the Natives were rebelling under their rules, they immediately wiped them out. Building and villages were burned to them ground and thousands of Natives were lost. The survivors either ran away to other tribes or were slaughtered. During the war maybe a few dozen puritans were lost. However compared to a whole village, the Natives were not only frustrated at their choice to help the Puritans but were they were losing everything. They would have okay if the Puritans would have left them alone and not give them any gifts. Before most knew it the poor Natives were gone from the settlers land. They had just want a stronger friend to protect them from the danger of other colonists but instead they got betrayal. Those who were kept as slaves worked without saying a word or asking a
The puritans traveled from England on the Arabella in January of 1630 to escape to a place where they could instill their own religious and political values into their society; Stephen Foster writes about the puritans in the narrative entitled Puritanism and Democracy: A mixed Legacy. Stephen grants the puritans with creating a society based off of religious freedom and reformation of the English church. Their social constructs consisted of hierarchies and accepted inequality. The puritans are credited with laying the foundation to the democratic system of America along with early aspects of political and social constructs found in current day America.
...y robbing the Indians of their land, the English upset and hurt many of the Native American tribes, which lead to many disputes over ownership of the land.
Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England settled New England. They were a highly religious people. Document A, John Winthrop’s “ City on a hill” speech, shows how they lived according to God’s will and were very community oriented. Their towns were very planned out with a town/ church meetinghouse in the centre, and land plots for everyone in the community. This is shown in Document D, Articles of Agreement in Springfield Massachusetts 1636. Family was also very important. Since they were very religious and family is highly regarded in the Bible, marriage was advocated and adultery was a huge crime. Adulterers were made to wear the letter A on their clothing. Since they were a very close-knit people, they travelled as big families and sometimes as communities. This mass travel is depicted in document B that is a ship’s list of emigrants bound for New Engla...
While residing in England, the Puritans and faithful Catholics faced prosecution, which led to their immigration to the New World. Most left England to avoid further harassment. Many groups and parishes applied for charters to America and, led by faithful ministers, the Pilgrims and Puritans made the long voyage to North America. Their religion became a unique element in the New England colonies by 1700. Before landing, the groups settled on agreements, signing laws and compacts to ensure a community effort towards survival when they came to shore, settling in New England. Their strong sense of community and faith in God led them to develop a hardworking society by year 1700, which Documents A and D express through the explanation of how the Pilgrims and Puritans plan to develop...
Vaughan, Alden T., Clark, Edward W. Puritans Among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London England: Belknap, Harvard, 1981.
Massachusetts's inhabitants were Puritans who believed in predestination and the ideal that God is perfect. Many Puritans in England were persecuted for their nihilist beliefs in England because they felt that the Church of England, led by the Kind, did not enforce a literal enough interpretation of the Bible. Persecution punishment included jail and even execution. To seek refuge, they separated to go to Holland because of its proximity, lower cost, and safer passage. However, their lives in Holland were much different than that of England. The Separatists did not rebel against but rather preferred the English culture. They did not want their children to be raised Dutch. Also, they felt that Holland was too liberal. Although they enjoyed the freedom of religion, they decided to leave for America. Pilgrims, or sojourners, left for America on The Mayflower and landed in Cape Cod in 1626. They had missed their destination, Jamestown. Although the climate was extremely rocky, they did not want to move south because of their Puritan beliefs. They thought that everything was predestined, and that they must have landed on this rocky place for a reason. They moved slightly north to Plymouth Rock in order to survive more comfortably. Also because of their Puritan beliefs, they had good relations with the Native Americans. Their pacifist nature led the Indians to help with their crops. In thanks, the Pilgrims celebrated the first thanksgiving in 1621. A second group of Puritans in England, the Massachusetts Bay Company, came to Massachusetts for more economically motivated purposes due to their non-minimalist beliefs.
The puritans had many religious beliefs. The religious beliefs they held were strong and they were extremely devoted to serving their Lord. Puritans believed that people of God had a teetotal lifestyle, worked hard and were responsible. They also believed that anything and everything that happens on earth is already predestined by God. People would not earn salvation with works of righteousness but through God’s grace. The congregation would make all of the decisions in the church and they would not acknowledge any other religions. When Puritans worshipped, it was very simple and only focused on God. There was no music, stained glass windows or art.
Although at first glance the arrival of the Puritans in America seemed solely for religious freedom, it actually was deeply embedded in economic trading opportunities. In 1629, the English crown authorized the colonization of a large area of New England by the Massachusetts Bay Company, which was a joint stock trading company. The company was taken over by a group of wealthy Puritans, and they successfully established the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of John Winthrop in the New World. The
The Puritans were mainly artisans and middling farmers by trade and in the wake of the reformation of the Church of England, left for the colonies to better devout themselves to God because they saw the Church of England as a corrupt institution where salvation was able to be bought and sold, and with absolutely no success in further reforming the Church, set off for the colonies. English Puritans believed in an all-powerful God who, at the moment of Creation, determined which humans would be saved and which would be damned (Goldfield 45).
The puritans were very religious. They wanted to show everyone what happens if you are good and believe in god and the heavens. If you do bad things you would be punished or be killed. If you do good things you can be hand chosen to go to heaven.
One sad series of events of the early colonists involved the Puritans and their "witch hunts".
Though there were religious concerns that contributed to the settling of British North America, the economic concerns outweighed the notable religious concerns. A religious concern that played a role in British colonization was that the British wanted to have the Indians of North America converted to Protestant Christianity (Boorstin et al. 34). In addition, specific groups that were seeking religious freedom used the British colonizing as a venue to achieve this objective. Such groups included the Puritan separatists who had begun to lose their freedoms in England, and thus they became colonists in New England.
The Puritans were Englishmen who chose to separate from the Church of England. Puritans believed that the Anglican Church or Church of England resembled the Roman Catholic Church too closely and was in dire need of reform. Furthermore, they were not free to follow their own religious beliefs without punishment. In the sixteenth century the Puritans settled in the New England area with the idea of regaining their principles of the Christi...
The Puritan belief structure was built around the idea of treating one another as brothers, loving one another and having compassion. The Puritans also believed everyone should be virtuous to one another. The Puritans themselves did not treat the Native Americans this way. The Puritans look at themselves as the better group of people. It did not matter who someone was or what type of skin color one had, if one did not have the same beliefs as the Puritans he or she was considered an outcast in their society. The Puritans saw the Native Americans as savages and beasts. The Puritans’ relationship with the Native Americans was contrary to Puritan Christian doctrine.
America was still in development, but puritans wanted a piece of the prosperity . A example in the text is, “The head was displayed in Plymouth, a reminder to the Indians about who was in charge,”(After the Mayflower). This shows that the puritans were superior because this statement really does show that the puritans are trying show that they run the show and they are in power. They hit them where it hurts because they used a head of someone that was native, someone that they knew. The natives loved america but were confused as to why puritans act the way they do.