Pilgrims and Native Americans in Massachusetts Karina Yanez HIS/110 October 23‚ 2013 Sarah Farenick Pilgrims and Native Americans in Massachusetts \In September of 1620 some 100 people ‚mostly seeking religious freedom from the church of England set sail seeking the colony of Virginia. They traveled over on a ship known as the Mayflower where they were blown off their course. After a long voyage of 65 days‚ the refugees landed in cape- cod‚ present day Massachusetts. The settlers mostly lived
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Clash of Cultures Charles J. Morgan HIS/110 October 15‚ 2012 Amy Champ Clash of Cultures The pilgrims landed in Plymouth‚ Massachusetts in 1620. They left England to seek religious freedom‚ or in search of a better life. After a period in Holland they set sail from England on September 16‚ 1620 abroad the Mayflower. They were a small religious group that was part of a larger religious group the “puritans”. The Puritan movement denoted a loose collection of religious beliefs. Puritans believed
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Virginia colony but due to natural events that occurred‚ it was blown off course too far north. It landed in Provincetown Massachusetts. London Company authorized the voyage of the Mayflower but didn’t give permission for them to settle that far north. The settlers signed a compact‚ The Mayflower Compact‚ which would be governed by majority rule. When they arrived in Massachusetts‚ their goals were “god‚ gold and glory”. They were the first permanent british settlers‚ called The Jamestown colony‚ settling
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an act of god‚ they landed instead in Massachusetts in 1620. Because of this‚ they were no longer within jurisdiction of the Virginia Charter‚ which was a document issued by King James I of England‚ which basically permitted land rights to be passed on to come colonists in order to spread Christianity to different places. The area that the Charter covered is all on the east coast‚ figuratively from todays South Carolina to Canada‚ and present day Massachusetts was not included in this. For the pilgrims
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settlers of New Plymouth are still hanging on to the old ways. Also‚ they state how they are constructing many the government’s ways on many of the same standards as the old world of England. But‚ even with the basis of the new settlement still in the old world‚ they wrote about how they want to approach things with a more democratic view such as having officers and equal laws. 3. The Mayflower Compact could be considered more of a strong agreement for the Pilgrims of the New Plymouth settlement to
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Connie Crocker Professor Bryant History 101 21 June 2014 MAYFLOWER AND THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT Master Christopher Jones and several business partners purchased the ship Mayflower about 1607. Its origins prior to that remain uncertain. Its first documented voyage of record was to Trondheim‚ Norway‚ in 1609. Andrew Pawling hired the ship to take a cargo of London goods to Norway‚ sell them off‚ and buy Norway goods (lumber‚ tar‚ fish) to return back to England. Unfortunately on the return
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THANKSGIVING AT PLYMOUTH 4 THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS 6 THANKSGIVING’S ANCIENT ORIGINS 7 REFERENCES 8 ABSTRACT The tradition started when in 1620 a group of men‚ woman and children left England on a ship called Mayflower. They were pilgrims and they wanted to start a new life in the New World. The voyage was very hard. They were cold and hungry and most of them died. The voyage took 66 days and they landed on the north-east coast of North America what today we know as Massachusetts. Only half
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lifestyles. Two of the most famous of these documents are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut‚ written by pilgrims of Connecticut in 1639‚ and the Mayflower Compact‚ which was written by Plymouth settlers in 1620. In 1639‚ a group of pilgrims‚ being persecuted for their religious beliefs‚ left Massachusetts and sought out to colonize the area that is now Connecticut and build up a community essentially religious in design. There‚ on January 24‚ 1639‚ they developed the first written constitution
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English Separatists During the sixteenth century several movements sprang up in England hoping to reform the Church of England. Most called for a return to the simple teachings and practices of the Bible. One militant group‚ the Puritans‚ were deeply influenced by John Calvin and the reform of the church that he instituted in Geneva. They were called "Puritans" because they insisted on purity of doctrine and practice in the church. Another group‚ the Separatists‚ were people who had given
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Captain Jahn Smith and Governor William Bradford were two influental leaders in the New World during the early 1600s. They both established a colony and they attempted to attract settlers with writings. Their writings were intended for different audiences and they both had different purposes. John Smith’s writings were intended to bring people to the new world. He wrote a pamphlet to the people in England and told about all the good things about New England. In his pamphlet he tried to persuade people
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