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    from London. They decided to let the settlers have at least some say in what happened in their government. Section Two 1. The Puritans’ and the Pilgrims’ view of the Anglican Church differed because the Pilgrims (or Separatists) wanted to completely separate from the Church of England‚ while the Puritans wanted to stay in the Church but change it. 2. The Pilgrims were planning to land in the Virginia colony‚ but instead they ended up at Cape Cod‚ in present day Massachusetts. Because they were

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    whole truth as Nathaniel Philbrick goes in deeper to what the relationship between the Pilgrims and Natives were really like. In the 1620s‚ English Puritans left England to the New World for the desire to seek religious freedom. They were a group of people unaware what will greet them across the vast‚ open ocean; taking their chances knowing the journey would prove both costly and frustrating. The English puritans arrived in Cape Cod after being blown north of their intended course‚ many people had

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    because one had huge ego while the other was an honest person. The colonist of Jamestown were members of the Angelica church and the pilgrims ‚ from Plymouth‚ were Puritans which was part of the England church. The Jamestown citizens were more meaner and ruder than the pilgrims because the Jamestown colonist believed that it is everybody on their own while the pilgrims believed that everybody mattered in their colony. We know more stuff from Plymouth than Jamestown because Bradford recorded everything

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    Colonial Period to 1750 Presidents: None Foreign Policies and Key Events: * In 1629 a group of non-Separatist Puritans fearing for the faith and the future‚ secured a royal charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Company * During the Great Migration of the 1630s‚ about 75‚000 refugees left England; not all of them were Puritans and only about 14‚000 came to Massachusetts—many were attracted to the warm and fertile West Indies‚ especially the sugar-rich island of Barbados. Important Documents:

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    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 by the book (in this case‚ the Bible). Their town was rustic and grim with the prison being the first

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    The colony at Jamestown‚ the colonies at Plymouth‚ and the colony at Boston had different nature‚ goals‚ successes and failures. There was a cross of similarities and differences. One thing that remains obvious is each was looking for something that was lacking in their home land. There was a perception and a picture that each group had when they left their homelands. Arrival in the new would prove to be an alternate reality from that which was envisioned. The new reality still provided a challenge

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    Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750. (2005) • Massachusetts: o Small farm o Merchant trading o Protestantism o Livestock o John Winthrop – city on a hill o Roger Williams – separation of church and state o Massachusetts Bay Company o Pilgrims o Mayflower Compact • Virginia: o Cash Crops and plantations o House of Burgesses o Bacon’s Rebellion o Slaves – Revolts o No fixed religion o Charter o Virginia Company – more government control • Comparisons: o Triangle trade

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    It also had very descriptive pictures that one could visualize what it was like back in the day will reading. This site is related to chapter 2 out of the book that we read because it talks about the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony‚ Thanksgiving‚ Puritan life‚ and how New England expanded. One of the things that interested me the most was the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. It’s where hundreds of travelers basically got on a boat called the “Mayflower” in September 1620 that headed to Virginia. They

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    The Puritans of 17th century New England believed in witches and witchcraft. They were a group of people who had left England to escape religious persecution‚ yet their beliefs centered on an intolerant and rigid code. They shared many of the same beliefs as the Church of England but felt that neither the church nor the country was up to snuff. They believed that all sins should be punished and that God would be the one to do so. Any misfortune that was suffered was seen as God’s will or as the work

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    I must admit‚ at the onset‚ that I have a pretty negative thoughts about Columbus. My teenage idealization of the man who "discovered" America was crushed when I read the text book and hearing class discussions. From the book‚ I learned how Columbus enslaved and murdered thousands of Arawaks and other Native American people. The New World he had once portrayed as a paradise had swiftly spun into something much darker. Columbus’s actions were unjustifiable immoral‚ to say the very least‚ inhumane

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