The Great Awakening was a religious movement that spread throughout New England during the mid-eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1745. The Great Awakening sought to make Christianity a deeply personal experience and pulled away from traditional ceremony, encouraging personal commitment and emotional involvement in faith. Jonathan Edwards was a Puritan and theologian; one of the most famous preachers of the Great Awakening. Edwards’ most famous sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, despite the fact that he had delivered the sermon to his own congregation, with little effect, he felt led to use it again when invited to preach at the neighboring town of Enfield, Massachusetts on July 8, 1741. During Edwards’ sermon he used vivid imagery of hell, the wrath of God, and the hope of salvation to reveal his perspective on the reality that awaited those that did not follow Christ.…
During the 1630`s to the 1660`s the Puritans had a frat influence on the New England colonies. Puritans were protestants that arose within the Church of England. They demanded to have a greater and more rigorous discipline and were not satisfied with what the Church of England offered.They separated themselves from the Church of England but still considered themselves from the Church of England. when their desires were not fulfilled they left to settle in the Americas.Many spread throughout the colonies and settled in places like New Hampshire and Rhode Island. The Puritans made an impact on the political, economical, and the social development of New England colonies through the 1630`s and the 1660`s.…
The Individuals who settled the Chesapeake region were prompted by the rumors of gold and quick wealth, whereas the New England puritans fled the “The Protestant reform” in order to…
In contrast, New England was founded to escape religious persecution. The “Separatists,” who were later known as the Puritans come only to practice their religion freely. The Puritans had no interest in profit, but only to work together to make their colony triumph. As John Winthrop stated in A Model of Christian Charity, “We must be knit together in this work as one man.” He explains that by working and understanding one another, they may prevail. By working together they’ll become “a city upon a hill” for everyone to look and admire them. They tried to set an example for others to follow. Clearly these two provides a pivotal point of view on the outlook of life.…
The New England and Chesapeake regions differed economically as well. The Puritan work ethic played a major factor in the economic life of the New England colonists. Northern colonists withheld that they were “engaged together to make a plantation” (Doc. D), further emphasizing the importance of unity, diversity and class equality in the North. In the…
During the 1600’s many ideas and values affected the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies (specifically from 1630 through the 1660’s) . The puritains had a close kinship, for example “working as one man”, and entertaining eachother in brotherly affection. The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England. The designation "Puritan" is often incorrectly used, notably based on the assumption that hedonism and Puritanism are antonyms: Historically, the word was used to characterize the Protestant group as extremists similar to the Cathari of France, and according to Thomas Fuller in his Church History dated back to 1564, Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and "precisian" with the sense of modern "stickler".…
What were the fundamental differences between southern society and northern society in the decades leading up to the Civil War? Before the war there were great changes that occurred in the United States. The North was rapidly industrializing that created a separation between the North and the agricultural South. Both the North and South did have some similarities, but the differences between the North and South gradually lead to the Civil War. There were many similarities between The North and South.…
In the 1600s, when America was a mysterious land inhabited by even more mysterious people, a handful of brave souls ventured to this strange new world. These brave souls were known as the Puritans. This special group of people sought refuge in America to practice their religion freely, without the ‘corruption of the church’ back in their homeland. Puritans believed that the law, economy and social lives of the people should be completely controlled by their one God. These Puritans had a strong developmental impact on New England and lead their society on a religious foundation. The strict foundation had a distinct impact on the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from the 1630s through the 1660s.…
Puritans were passionate reformers seeking to bring the Church of England to a state of purity in comparison with Christianity at the time of Christ and decided to form their own religious colonies in America. They considered religion to be a complex and highly intellectual affair. Thus, leaders were highly trained scholars with authoritarian positions that developed a “built-in hierarchism” (http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7eCAP/PURITAN/purhist.html#pil, 3). Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson believed and preached “Individualisme”…
Aside from a vague support for the Church of England, there was little spiritual enthusiasm among the early Virginians (at least in comparison with the New England Puritans). It was first and foremost a profit-making venture, dedicated to the proposition that all the investors should receive dividends commensurate to their investments. Most of the original settlers were lone men who had left their families behind4 in order to attend to the territory that was to (hopefully) yield gold for King and Country and (most importantly) the shareholders. During the colony's initial years, "there was no talk...but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold...."5 Gold was, unfortunately, not abundant, but rich, fertile land was. The investors in the Virginia Company quickly seized upon the ancient vocation of farming as a substitute for gold-mining, and paid for the passage of numerous indentured servants, and later, slaves to the New World. This created a very stratified agrarian society in contrast to New England's commercial community. This was characterised by a fear of the lower classes so intense that, at times, the upper classes would not go off to defend their colony for fear of leaving their homes undefended against the indentured servants and slaves they were masters over only when they could enforce their dominion with whip and gun.6 Controlled by the aristocratic planters, the southern governments did not display the charity (supposedly) so integral to the Puritan administrations. Their arrogance towards the rustic peoples of the western regions and the poor servants and slaves of the seaboard eventually did lead to a few minor examples of the feared underclass uprising. One of these was Bacon's Rebellion, justified by its leader, Nathaniel Bacon, because the wealthy government officials did nothing for the defense or economic…
Economically, the Puritans worked together within a society to increase the wealth of the community. Also, individually owned farms were common to produce wealth for those families. Fair priced goods were idealistic in New England in the 1600’s. Altogether, economic values helped greatly in the development and growth of the New England colonies in the 1600’s.…
The populations in the New England and Chesapeake areas were settled by different people. During the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century, the persecution of Puritans took place in England causing many of the Puritans to separate from the country. As a repercussion, the Puritans and Separatists sought a charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Company, which ultimately led them to land in Cape Cod. According to records of ship’s list of emigrants bound for New England, many of the people travelled by household or in families. (Document B) In New England, puritans were a group of Protestants who demanded the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline. This area was mainly made up of Puritans who put God and all other clergy above anyone else. John Winthrop believed that New England was a city upon a hill which served as a model for society. God led New England. On the other hand, in the Chesapeake, the population consisted of young males who sought to make a living. According to records of ship’s list of emigrants bound for Virginia, most of the people were young males between the ages of eighteen and forty. (Document C) Most of the people in the region were merchants who came from England looking got gold and built joint-stock company. Unlike the Puritans, the merchants were not expecting to stay in the…
This essay is a sermon delivered by John Winthrop to the Puritans aboard the ship Arbella as it sailed to America in 1630. Winthrop was an early Puritan leader and the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop writes that God has purposely made some people to be rich and others poor in order to manifest his work in the areas of mercy, love, gentleness, temperance, faith, patience and obedience. He also speaks of the moral gospel' that requires man to help one another in every want or distress. This essay provides biblical references pertaining to man's obligation to help others. It captures the close relationship between philanthropy and religion as seen by the Puritans.…
In Colonial America the level of opportunity available for each resident depended upon how much money they had, where they live, and what position they held in the social hierarchy. In this time as well as in today's society money rules over everything. Colonists leave their homelands not only to gain religious freedom, but to free themselves from the poverty they live in everyday in Britain. Colonial America offered an opportunity to start fresh.…
Even back in the day, money has been an issue for many. This is why many colonist from New England decided to move to the Southern Colonies. In the southern colonies, the puritans didn’t struggle as much as others, due to their geographic location. The southern soil was good for agriculture. The southern colonies’ economy was based on the indentured workers, who help out a lot in growing their three main cash crops; tobacco, rice, and indigo. Although though those are the main crops grow, they are not the only ones because there were also other incomes of money such as fishing, lumber, and even growing smaller crops such as wheat, corn and other of the source.…