John Winthrop‚ an English Puritan leader‚ arrived in America in 1630 aboard the Arbella which was the largest of 11 ships. Soon to be future govenpr‚ Winthrop gave a sermon about the city on a hill‚ "We shall be as a city upon a hill‚ the eyes of all people are upon us." Winthrop was saying that all eyes would be on this soon to be new settlement in Massachusetts. His purpose was to state that if the new settlement worked together and allowed God to convert them and show them the way. Winthrop was
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The English settlement in America occurring around the early 1600’s was the result of the Age of Exploration in addition‚ the freedom from religious oppression. For the Separatists later known as the Pilgrims‚ America was a place for dreams and new beginnings given that they were persecuted for their religious beliefs in England. Some fled to the Netherlands finding religious freedom and no work. The Pilgrims however‚ settled in America. Moreover‚ the Puritans came to America to practice their religion
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Although a community can be simply defined as a group of people living in the same place‚ the significance of a community is far more complex. John Winthrop and St. Jean de Crevecoeur express their passion for an ideal world where the people are united and work for the good of the society. In A Model of Christian Charity‚ Winthrop lays out specific guidelines that must be followed in order for the Puritan settlers to live cordially together in this New World. He writes‚ “every man might have need
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Puritans felt God had a plan for their lives‚ that he had led them to the New World with great intentions for them; feeling God had led them to the place they came to call home‚ Puritans sought out to discover the purpose God had brought them here. In doing so they developed a theory that God had determined they be bestowed with literacy‚ leaving illiterate ministries in the past (as noted in A Statement about Education in New England‚ 1643). The expansion of literacy influenced Puritans to become
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Midterm (and Final) Exam Cover Sheet for DSCI 202 KUID___________________________ Six Digit CODES Number (Read Paragraph #4 Below) Name___________________________ Signature_____________________________________ 1. WARNING: ALL FORMS OF CHEATING WILL BE PROSECUTED AS OUTLINED IN THE UNIVERSITY SENATE RULES AND REGULATIONS §§ 2.6.1-2.6.5‚ AND POSSIBLY 17 U.S.C.A. §§ 101‚ 106. PENALTIES TYPICALLY CARRY A MINIMUM OF “F” FOR THE COURSE‚ BUT MAY ALSO RESULT IN EXPULSION FROM THE UNIVERSITY. SOME
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The Bath School disaster was three bombings in Bath Township‚ Michigan‚ on May 18‚ 1927‚ which killed 38 school children‚ two teachers‚ four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–14 years old) attending the Bath Consolidated School. This was one of the deadliest school massacres in the history of the United States. The bomber was school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe‚ 55‚ who was enraged about a property
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In 1630‚ John Winthrop famously pleaded with the puritans to consider “that we shall be as a City upon a Hill‚ the eyes of all people upon us” (John Winthrop‚ 1630). This was the birthplace of an idea for a nation that would develop‚ and be observed by many as creating its own ideology. It provoked the creation of attitudes and morals in the resulting United States‚ which would become known as ‘American Exceptionalism’‚ a nation viewing itself as above and more superior than any other nation. Exceptionalists
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Consequently‚ American revolutionaries undercut the idea of complete obedience to the King using Puritan principles. Adams (1765) explored the connection between the human soul and the right to self-governance which can be traced to John Winthrop’s (1630) "A Modell of Christian Charity.” To showcase Christian values‚ Winthrop (1630) believed that in America‚ "The Lord will ...delight to dwell among [them and abudantly bless all]...Soe that [they] shall see much more of his wisdome‚ power‚ goodness
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qImagine you are sleeping away in an apartment on the main road of Concord Massachusetts. You wake up to a ton of yelling. So you go downstairs grab your musket and run outside. Then you look down the road and you see hundreds of redcoats marching forward. But then you see a line of colonist with muskets walk out and block the entrance. The regulars start to tell them to turn around and go back home. They started to turn around and then someone fires a shot and a British soldier drops. That was what
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony government was able to be‚ at least partially‚ simultaneously theocratic‚ democratic‚ oligarchic‚ and authoritarian. It was able to be partly theocratic because of the doctrine of the covenant‚ which stated that the whole purpose of government was to enforce God’s laws. God’s laws applied to everyone‚ even nonbelievers. Everyone also had to pay taxes for the government-supported church. This meant that religious leaders held enormous power in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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