How Did The Puritans Interact With The Idea Of Living In America

The America today has a totally different look on it than how it was during the early years of the different colonies and this is because of how the colonies came to America and how they built their economies. The Puritans in Virginia, Massachusetts, and in Barbados all had similar and different ways in coming to America. Some of them had the ideas of coming all together and working together and others had the idea of just going on your own and making your own way through life in the new world, or also known as in “A City Upon A Hill”. Although, the way they all came to America was the same, each ship was lead by a male to America and with the idea to find success in living in America. Prior to the 1700’s,the economics during the development of the English colonial society in New
Eight Puritan men signed off to 4 rules, the introduction being, “We whose names are underwritten, being God’s providence engaged together to make a plantation… do mutually agree to certain articles and orders to be observed and kept by us and by our successors…” The plantation had to be added into this specifically because in Massachusetts, and the starting of America, there were a lot of men who owned fields that grew crops and that was how they lived their lives, and what they based their wealth off of. One of the rules was, “That everyone shall have a share of the meadow or planting ground…” This was a way so no one would become poor or die from not making a wealth in their life. From it becoming a rule, it was something you had to obey which caused for a man or women to not get left behind. In America today, we still have plantations and that is how some people live their lives and how they make their money. America to this day still has rules, but now we call them laws of the state or of the