Document A is about how they need to united and love one another. They will all work together and will suffer together. The colonist looked up to the Puritans and when they do something sinful God won't be happy. As a result they believed that the world will treat them badly. They wanted community in the New World and there faith in God got them through there new life. Document B is about how William didn't want to force uniformity in religion. The effects of uniformity in religion in the past has wrecked other regions in the past. Rhode Island established this and they wanted separation from the government. Religious tolerance was now spreading in America. Document C is Thomas Jefferson reflecting in his notes over religious tolerance. From 1659 into the early 17th century Virginia has been giving anti Quaker laws. Jefferson believes it was an accident that many of the Quakers were physically harmed and excepted for there religious beliefs. This ties down to how others weren't getting along with overs peopled religious beliefs and that it caused anger and disagreement during this period. …show more content…
Document D is about there loyalty to there faith and church.
The Puritans want to spread there faith to over people including children, other religions, non religious, and the Indians. They strongly believed in spreading Gods world and having it expressed in the state and daily lifestyle of the people. Their view on the religious tolerance is to follow both there religions and state laws. Document E is a about the how the colonist were attacked on the Pequot's Mystic River. He describes it as a very scared sight and how horrifying the smell was. Once they one the wining side praised a God in there victory. The Puritans believed that the Native Americas religious beliefs were blasphemous and they wanted to get rid of
them. Document F is about 3 men Thomas Goold, John George, and Thomas Osburne who weren't religious and didn't attention any important events for a year. Practicing your faith was more important to them and they told the jury that they weren't going to follow the religious meetings. They were committing a crime for not going to public worship. As a result they were put into prison. Document G is a picture of the Puritans village. There land was divided in Massachusetts and there villages consisted of meeting houses, houses,and grants that John Goodnow owned. There land all consisted of livestock that were about 32 acres per division. Document H is about how both the government and the church need to limit there authority. I goes into how in a household the husbands have full control over there wives and the children don't really have a say in there freedom. Government should be limited with power so that the men can't abuse there rights over women and children. If you give to much control over any community it will cause issues in the society's social hierarchy giving men full control over the country.
Holton, W. (2008). Unruly americans and the origins of the constitution (1 pbk ed.). New York: Hill and Wang.
As the regions began to expand and develop, their motivations for settlement helped to mold their societies. New England was a place where men sought refuge from religious persecution and was established as a haven for religious refugees. Despite this reason for settling, the New Englanders still attempted to spread their own beliefs of religion. As illustrated by John Winthrop in his Model of a Christian Charity, he preached to his fellow colonists that “we shall be a city upon a hill” (Doc A) exemplifying the Puritans’ aspirations of a Holy Utopia. He and countless other New Englanders practiced the belief that they must all work together. They were determined to “mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work.” The Articles of Agreement plainly laid out the basis for the New England region. These articles made New England a cosmopolitan mix of rich and poor families, all being in possession of land and resolute in doing God’s work (Doc D). However, while the New Englanders settled to create a Holy Utopia, the people of the Chesapeake were concerned not only with their religious freedom, but also ...
Similar to the previous document, Document 6, the individuals writing this urges the state of Massachusetts to grant them freedom. In the introduction to this document, a contradiction is addressed by Holton, discussing the colonists’ views on King George III’s policies. Holton states: “White colonists’ protests often charged that the policies adopted by King George III and Parliament took away their liberty and even threatened to “enslave them” (Holton 46). Based on this, one would imply that the colonists are not used to this type of oppression being placed on their lifestyle. It seems that the colonists felt as if they were going to be treated like slaves. This protest contradicts itself because the colonists are the originally the ones that are oppressing and setting strict rules and laws against African Americans. In addition, it appears that the colonists are unbothered with treating the slaves worse than the result of King George and Parliament’s policies, but suddenly it is not okay once that action is placed upon the colonists themselves. Another document that speaks on these contradictions is Document 10. This document examines Phillis Wheatley’s letter to Samson Occom. Wheatley’s letter to Occum denotes the colonists’ insistence to break free from Britain’s wrath and their persistence to keep slavery in the United States. Wheatley attempts to
When Thomas Jefferson entered office in 1800, he came in with lots of new ideas and goals as the president. Jefferson believed in a smaller central government with stronger state governments. He was a Republican and favored the view of strict construction. He believed that, “Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government…” (Document A). Jefferson and his Republican party believed in a government that was going to work for the people and that was going to have them at its best interests. That is why they believed in having stronger state governments, they were closer to home and to the people they were governing, therefore they knew more of what the public needed. Document B also refers to strict construction and Jefferson’s beliefs. It talks about the freedoms that were stated in the constitution, mainly, the freedom of religion. Jefferson believes that the federal government should not have any say in dealing with religion of the people. The Republicans believed that any law stated in the Constitution should be strictly followed.
It also states that if a colonists enters a society and don’t think it's being held down nicely conditioned that they should have a say on their opinion ( with limitations to it). Sam Adams basically thinks men should have freedom of speech. ( doc 3). Quakers are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements.They believe god exists in everyone. Quaker leadership (doc 4) was made in order to keep protests nonviolent. In 1775, quaker leaders addressed the colonist’s rights of expressing their views. Before the Constitution the national government was weak and operated like independent countries. Back then Tar and feathering was a public humiliation used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge against people who believed different things. She states that if you were to choose to stand up for your beliefs and risk all the consequences, than you are courageous, which is what they lacked in their society (doc
Document two is written by Vice President John C. Calhoun, and he argues that tariffs are creating sectionalism in the country. Calhoun describes are specifically unfair to the south but actually benefits the other citizens of the nation. He dislikes this concept and wishes equality for all and describes that equality is what this country is basically built upon. He brings up the Constitution as backup for his claim, and he also expresses his belief that the tariff is way too high and works against the
In his brief response, President Jefferson sympathized with the Baptists in their opposition to the state of Connecticut’s established religion. The question of this assignment is “What do you think the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution thought about the separation of church and state or about the separation of God from government?” While devoutly committed to religious liberty He deeply opposed established churches as existed in Massachusetts and Connecticut, but recognized that, as President, he had to respect them. The letter contains the phrase "wall of separation between church and state," that expressed his reverence for the First Amendment’s “wall of separation between Church & State” at the federal level. This became the short-hand for the Establishment Clause that we use today: "Separation of church and state." President Jefferson put much thought and intense scrutiny into the letter, and consulted New England politicians to assure that his words would not offend while still conveying his message that it was not the place of the Congress or of the Executive to do anything that might be misconstrued an establishment of religion. The now well-known the phrase "wall of separation between church and state,” lay
As more immigrants immigrated to the colonies and established lives in colonial America, the colonist began to incorporate their ideas of freedoms, rights and tolerance in legal documents. Some legal documents, such as Maryland’s Toleration Act, illustrate the colonists’ belief in freedom and rights often connected to democracy. Other official documents, for...
The preface section was about an activity that Holton used in some of his classes. He would ask his class to tell him which parts of the constitution were their most favorable. He we would then proceed to write what each student said on the board into three unlabeled categories. When the class exhausted the list of rights and restrictions it was their job to determine what each of the categories were. After the categories were revealed it was shown that most items belonged to the Bill of Rights category, as appose to the other two categories which were The Articles of Confederation, and the basic Constitution preceding the Bill of
Religion was the foundation of the early Colonial American Puritan writings. Many of the early settlements were comprised of men and women who fled Europe in the face of persecution to come to a new land and worship according to their own will. Their beliefs were stalwartly rooted in the fact that God should be involved with all facets of their lives and constantly worshiped. These Puritans writings focused on their religious foundations related to their exodus from Europe and religions role in their life on the new continent. Their literature helped to proselytize the message of God and focused on hard work and strict adherence to religious principles, thus avoiding eternal damnation. These main themes are evident in the writings of Jonathan Edwards, Cotton Mathers, and John Winthrop. This paper will explore the writings of these three men and how their religious views shaped their literary works, styles, and their historical and political views.
The next document is one that is on the Marshall Plan. The document gives the purpose and implications directly from the mouth of George Marshall. This was also more towards the difficult side as it forced the reader to gather a fair amount of evidence to determine this is the Marshall Plan. This was placed
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...
In the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, the generation of our founder fathers faced internal and external problems during the fight for American freedom and the creation of the Constitution. These problems were either the result of the colonists and their fight for liberty and ideology between themselves or the British trying to evoke their power onto the colonists. Both conflicts go hand in hand with each other, but present different forms of problems. While reading the Bernstein’s “Thomas Jefferson” it was easy to see the internal conflict that the colonist would face after gaining there freedom from the British simply because they didn’t have a background in
The second letter details “an extremely dangerous rebellion among the Negroes in the Eastern shore of Virgin.” The third document was extremely rare in the state of South Carolina’s archive written by a slave who talks of plans for a rebellion including thousands of slaves. This never became a reality, but in the document, which was found in the year 1793 in the streets of Yorktown, Virginia, showed the deep longing the slaves had for freedom, in spite of the many odds against their revolt being
convince and assure Puritans that they are nothing to god. The text mentions religious beliefs