Native Americans In The 1700s

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and had found a “New” world, America. He had found it not discovered it because there were already Indians and other people living there so it wasn’t a “new” world it was just a new unheard-of place that the Europeans had just found. The Indians living in America was not as technologically advanced as the new Europeans who had just arrived and began to settle. All of the different Indian tribes that lived their got food from crops, hunting and fishing. They all had their own religious, languages and political beliefs. When the Europeans came they how much freedom the Indians had, they did not live under governments with laws. They did not have the authority, order or discipline as the European
In Europe, it was the complete opposite all of the people had to follow the rules of the church. The church and the state were together if anyone were to go against the church or were Heretics they would be burned on a stake to show that if anyone went against the rules this would happen to them. The hierarchy in Europe in the 1700’s was made up of the nobility who were tiled privileged and wealthy, which they had received from their ancestors. Then came the middle class which consisted of merchants and bankers, they were growing in political power and wealth. The majority of Europeans were peasants who worked in the fields, they lived very tough lives, they didn’t own much and didn’t get a lot of food. When the European people heard about this new world many people wanted to go there even though it was dangerous. During the seventeenth century America, many people went for freedoms such as religious and economic; however, not everyone came for this reason, for others came as indentured servants and slaves as
They believed that the church and state should be spate not together. Many puritans moved to the new world for religious freedom, because they did not believe in some of the ways of the church and thought that the bible should be interpreted in their own way and not how the church interprets it. Rodger Williams, arrived in Massachusetts in 1631 he believed in everything the puritans believed in, that the church and state be separated and that everyone should interoperate the bible in how they want and shouldn’t be told what to think about it. He also thought that law obeying citizens should be able to practice whatever religion they want to. Except he didn’t believe in the idea that go chose to save people before they were born. He thought that everyone should have a fair chance to earn gods savior. In 1636, he left Massachusetts and created a colony in Rhode Island. He created it a place where people could live with religious freedom. It had no requirements or rules people had to obey the church. Anne Hutchinson was a strong and powerful daughter of a clergyman. She would hold meetings at her home to discuss the religious issues against mean and woman. She believed that god chose people to be saved before they were born and that they couldn’t earn it. This is what many Puritans believed. In 1637, she was tried in court for trying to get people to rebel or go against the sermons. She was banished