Early Americans as depicted in William Bradford’s primary source document Of Plymouth Plantation (1640)‚ were God-fearing‚ compassionate‚ christians who traveled from Old England to Early America were faced with disease‚ sickness‚ hunger‚ weather‚ and Indians. The Puritans that traveled there spread the word of god with the Indians and built a place of worship. While‚ The Scarlet Letter (1850)‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays these traditional Puritans as: harsh‚ judgmental‚ religion based‚ do everything
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“Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford is history about the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the lives of the Puritan colonists. He was a Puritan who sailed to Plymouth. He began to attend meetings of small group of Nonconformists and later‚ he joined them. The Nonconformists sailed to find land where they can be free to worship and live according to their own beliefs. After several years‚ William Bradford became governor of Plymouth Colony‚ and he was elected as a governor at least
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Cabeza de Vaca journeyed far into the Americas with disasters striking left and right. He wrote La Relacion to tell the king of Spain of the land and peoples there.He told of the suffering he and his men endured‚ and included helpful and factual information about the Americas. This primary source was invaluable to the king for the reason it told him what the Native Americans were like‚ what the living conditions were like‚ and what the climate was like. The king wanted to control the land and discover
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In Of Plymouth Plantation written around 1630. The author‚ William Bradford describes the story of the Puritans journey. In 1605‚ a group of English Puritans set out to find and create a pure society. Their journey‚ led by William Bradford took them to North America. Why did everyone see the Native Americans as caretakers? Why did the Pilgrims decide to move to America in spite of the dangers? Although Native Americans would consider themselves as caretakers of the land. They were the first to step
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they faced over a period of 5 or more months. Dangerous‚ long‚ and never ending is what many would describe it if we were in their place. Two groups of different people embarked on the same voyage to the new land which were Jamestown and the Plymouth Plantation. What distinguished each other was what kind of person they hold as a leader‚ how they worked together as a group‚ and their purpose of traveling there. In the beginning of the Jamestown voyage‚ their main captain was quite corrupt and he
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order to survive and succeed in a foreign land that presented many challenges. A failure to keep up with this demanding environment would have put an end to their newly settled community. One way we see this is in William Bradford’s text Of Plymouth Plantation: “After this they chose‚ or rather confirmed‚ Mr. John Carver (a man godly and well approved amongst them) their Governor for that year. And after they had provided a place for their goods‚ or common store (which were long in unlading for want
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Imagine leaving everything you’ve ever known. The expert‚ “Of Plymouth Plantation”‚ by William Bradford‚ describes the struggles of pilgrims coming to America. The pilgrims first had to unite to reach the new world‚ then again to survive an Indian attack‚ and to survive. To cross the ocean the pilgrims had to work together. The story states “after a beating at sea they fell with that land which is called Cape Cod”. The statement implies they ran into many struggles during their journey. When
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The presence of God is evident in the passage from The History of Plymouth Plantation in every event significant or not. In his diary‚ William Bradford describes several occurrences in which God played a major role in deciding the outcome. According to Bradford‚ God can help or hurt according to His will. <br> <br>The first of these displays of God’s will in this passage was of revenge toward a sailor. He was as Bradford described him "a proud and very profane young man... of a lusty‚ able body
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The writings of both authors‚ William Bradford and Olaudah Equiano‚ are very important‚ because they show us first and accounts of their ideas and horrors. In the story Of Plymouth Plantation‚ William Bradford showed how Puritans could overcome obstacles in many quotes in this story. "Being thus arrived in good harbor‚ and brought safe to land‚ they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who brought them over the vast and furious ocean‚ and delivered them from all the perils and miseries
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PURITAN LITERATURE three main points "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford Summary: Bradford describes life in the new Puritan (1)’city upon a hill’. The Puritans thanked God for bringing them to the new land and built their lives around him. Although‚ in the beginning‚ (2) they had to push through disease and harsh weather. Bradford also describes how lonely the Pilgrims felt‚ because no one could ’greet them’ and they were in a place in which they knew nothing about. He knew that
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