1. The Puritans came to America because they wanted a place where they could practice their own religion without being persecuted for their dissent from the Church of England. However, their behaviors could be considered hypocritical because they did the same to dissenters of their own religion like Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams. Any religion or set of beliefs will have people who disagree, and both the Anglican Church and the Puritans understandably did not want these people. As more people arrived in the New World, however, the Puritans found it increasingly difficult to keep their community pure and were forced to accept more people.
2. During England's internal conflicts with the English Civil War, the colonies were able to settle without much interference and developed a sense of independence. When England began to pose restrictions such as the Navigation Act and the Molasses Act that were unfavorable to the colonies, they began to question England's
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authority. Because the colonies had initially started out as purely sources of raw materials, England did not predict this independence and attempted to take advantage of the colonies. By this time, the colonies did not feel like they had to follow England's orders and began to develop self-rule. 3. The majority of colonists who came to New England were individuals or families looking to settle permanently in America, while the colonists who came to the Chesapeake colonies were usually individual males looking to make money. Because the economy was largely agriculture based, indentured servants, slaves, and aristocratic landowners made up much of the Chesapeake population. Men outnumbered women 6:1, and social relationships were not prominent. New England had a diverse group that had not settled for just profit or to make money off of industry/agriculture. This accounts for the reason New England was able to achieved social stability and the beginnings of an education system, but Chesapeake could not develop the same. 4. The main push factor for the New England colony was religious. Many of the initial colonists who settled at Plymouth were Puritans, who felt the Church of England was beyond reform and wanted to escape the religious persecution they received. The thought of a home of their own to start a family and begin a new life was a significant pull factor. The middle colonies had fertile soil, which was desirable for those who had skill in farming. Additionally, the middle colonies were much more diverse than dominantly-Puritan New England, attracting minorities who wanted to live in a religiously-tolerant area. The southern colonies had an economy almost purely based on agriculture with a warm climate that allowed for a long growing season. This was perfect for those who wanted to build large plantations to pass onto their children. The rich immigrants who came only grew richer. 5.
Indentured servants were the first "slaves", but after Bacon's Rebellion, many landowners realized that these servants were becoming more and more rebellious. They looked for an alternative workforce that would be easier to control, and found their answer in African slaves. Slavery was an important institution in colonial America because of the necessity of labor to cultivate cash. Agriculture was the most prevalent industry throughout the colonies, and in order to make a lot of money off of crops, cheap labor was integral. The slave trade had enormous cultural and psychological effects on Africans. Generations and generations of Africans were stripped of any freedom they had before, forced to work, and were treated as nothing more than property. For the New World, slavery became integrated into the basis of its economy and it was something many felt they couldn't live without. This institution of slavery would cause decades of conflict and bloodshed in the future, shaping the history of
America. 6. The main purpose of the colonies during this period for the European nations was to supply raw goods. These raw goods would be shipped back to Europe and manufactured, then sold again to the colonies. This was good for the colonies in some ways because they didn't have the necessary machinery to produce the finished product, but it was mostly detrimental. The cost of buying back the finished item was usually higher than the raw goods that were shipped, which meant the colonies lost money and were forced into debt. In addition, the Navigation Laws imposed by the European countries made it difficult to conduct business with countries outside of the home countries. As the colonies began to develop a sense of becoming their own nation, ties and relationships between the colonies and European nations would begin to become more and more strained. 7. Religion and environment were two big influences on the thoughts of ordinary colonists. The Puritan communities in New England believed in predestination and the "saved", justifying events like the Salem Witch Trials. Where the colonists lived also played a big role by affecting their beliefs. For example, in the North, the economy was not reliant on labor and as a result, the colonists had little justification to support slavery in the future. However, in the South, agriculture and plantations was the basis of the economy and understandably, many were adamant about retaining their main labor force. Although England controlled life in the Americas at first, as time went on they lost much of their authority over the increasingly independent colonists. This foreshadowed the eventual breaking of ties between England and the colonists
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.
The use of labor came in two forms; indenture servitude and Slavery used on plantations in the south particularly in Virginia. The southern colonies such as Virginia were based on a plantation economy due to factors such as fertile soil and arable land that can be used to grow important crops, the plantations in the south demanded rigorous amounts of labor and required large amounts of time, the plantation owners had to employ laborers in order to grow crops and sell them to make a profit. Labor had become needed on the plantation system and in order to extract cheap labor slaves were brought to the south in order to work on the plantations. The shift from indentured servitude to slavery was an important time as well as the factors that contributed to that shift, this shift affected the future generations of African American descent. The history of colonial settlements involved altercations and many compromises, such as Bacons Rebellion, and slavery one of the most debated topics in the history of the United States of America. The different problems that occurred in the past has molded into what is the United States of America, the reflection in the past provides the vast amount of effort made by the settlers to make a place that was worth living on and worth exploring.
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...
When all things are considered, one can see the colonies didn't always agree with the way England handled things, in the area of religion, economics, politics, and social structure. Through their determination to obtain a better life for themselves, they ventured away from England and created their own nation over time.
During American colonization, the economy of the south became predominantly dependent on the tobacco plant. As the south continued to develop, they shifted their focus to cotton. Indentured servants as well as African slaves were used for these labor-intensive crops because their labor was decent and cheap (Shi and Tindall 39). Young British men were promised a life of freedom in America if they agreed to an exchange between a free voyage and labor for a fixed number of years. Many willing, able-bodied, and young men signed up with the hopes of establishing a bright future for themselves in America. Unbeknownst to them, indentured servitude was not as easy as it was made out to be. Many servants endured far worse experiences than they had ever imagined. The physical and emotional conditions they faced were horrible, their masters overworked them, and many had to do unprofessional work instead of work that enabled them to use their own personal skills. Young British men felt that because they faced such horrible circumstances, the exchange between a free voyage to America in exchange for servitude was not a proper trade.
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
When the northern and middle colonies were founded, England had a strong hold over the colonies. They controlled development and the government, among other things. But as the colonies developed, they began to have an ever-growing sense of independence that was a threat to its English rulers. As a result of this England went through much trouble in constantly trying to regain full control of the colonies.
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.
Slavery was a practice in many countries in the 17th and 18th centuries, but its effects in human history was unique to the United States. Many factors played a part in the existence of slavery in colonial America; the most noticeable was the effect that it had on the personal and financial growth of the people and the nation. Capitalism, individualism and racism were the utmost noticeable factors during this most controversial period in American history. Other factors, although less discussed throughout history, also contributed to the economic rise of early American economy, such as, plantationism and urbanization. Individually, these factors led to an enormous economic growth for the early American colonies, but collectively, it left a social gap that we are still trying to bridge today.
Though the Puritans, as well as some later groups, fled to the American colonies to escape religious persecution or restrictions, the fact remains that the Puritans had been granted "a charter from King James" for their settlement. Thus, the colonists who came to America for religious reasons were serving the primary purpose of generating profits for the Mother country of England (Boorstin et al.
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...
Slavery became of fundamental importance in the early modern Atlantic world when Europeans decided to transport thousands of Africans to the Western Hemisphere to provide labor in place of indentured servants and with the rapid expansion of new lands in the mid-west there was increasing need for more laborers. The first Africans to have been imported as laborers to the first thirteen colonies were purchased by English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 from a Dutch warship. Later in 1624, the Dutch East India Company brought the first enslaved Africans in Dutch New Amsterdam.
Puritan ideas on religion and Native Americans. 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.
Many Puritans immigrated to the Americas because they were victims of religious discrimination and they were also very exclusionary in their religious
First we must look at the Puritans who started their journey to America in the 1630’s. John Winthrop preached a wonderful sermon to the people to prepare them for the new land they were about to inhabit. Personally I believe Winthrop summarized what he