established the Jamestown Colony. In 1620‚ the Mayflower brought Puritan families from Holland to settle on the new land and then they established the Plymouth Colony. Both groups created the two of the earliest settlements in America. Three distinct differences between the two colonies are their relationship with the Native Americans‚ the purpose for the settlements being created‚ and the location and climate of both establishments. The purpose of the Jamestown Colony‚ located in Virginia‚ was
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on country; England. Although the colonies in the New England and Chesapeake regions of North America were settled mainly by the English‚ by the 1700s both developed into two distinct societies because of their environmental surroundings‚ their reasons for settlement‚ and their way of life. The regions had somewhat similar climates‚ but it was their surroundings that set them apart. Both regions had harsh and unforgiving climates that neither the Chesapeake settlers nor the New England settlers were
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magistrate judges known for issuing harsh punishments for minor infractions. It is also helpful to investigate the characteristics of the Puritans’ justice system and their modes of punishment through historical records and examples.
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Slavery in the British North American colonies differed depending what colony they are in. In places where slaves were the majority‚ they were treated differently as opposed to places with few slaves. In South Carolina‚ there were more African slaves than there were European settlers. In New England and the Middle Colonies‚ there were fewer slaves and fewer plantations for the slaves to work on. Virginia and Maryland had lots of slaves‚ in addition to lots of tobacco plantations to work on; but
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New England Puritans’ Aspirations and Fulfillment As of today‚ many of our ancient mentality as well as values has been based off of a 17th Century group called Puritans‚ people from New England who were not satisfied with the Church and their power‚ and decided to leave New England to create a Utopia of their own in America. In some ways‚ this idea had become successful‚ in fact‚ that some of it was imprinted into America’s history. When the Puritans left from New England to America‚ their idea
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The Puritan Dilemma by Edmund Morgan John Winthrop’s "Puritan dilemma" arose out of his life long effort to accomplish two goals: to secure a community dedicated to upholding every aspect of God’s will and to do this within the context of everyday life. His first challenge dealt with the depravity of the Church of England in the early seventeenth century and how to escape its wickedness without withdrawing from the world. Then‚ with the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630‚ a decade
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The Chesapeake and New England colonists can prove this point. For several different reasons‚ the Chesapeake colonies and the New England colonies are working towards a main goal. In order to establish a type of freedom‚ independence‚ tradition‚ and profit‚ these colonies must be formed and settled in by colonists. The main goal in the settlement of the Chesapeake colonies is driven by a motivation for profit‚ whereas the main goal for the settlement of the New England Colonies is more for religion
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Witch trials posed a great threat to the women of New England. Should a woman behave strangely in the slightest way‚ or say something vaguely implicative‚ or display signs of resistance towards her submissive nature towards men‚ she was suspected of witchcraft. According to the author‚ Carol Karlsen‚ the craze of the Salem Witch trials was brought about by an underlying sense of misogyny within the Puritan faith. The relationships within the Puritans’ ideal family unit were a parallel to God’s relationship
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indians came to where the colony was and that they took some of them and they killed the others. They were having a drought and i think the indians came to look for water and found them. So they ran into the colonist and killed many of them. They could of took the baby or some others too. In 1587 the english women‚ men‚ and kids found the roanoke island and came ashore. They settled at the New World to stay there permanently. (1)Around 1587 there was a second colony was founded in roanoke. The
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Paris in 1763‚ the most important change that occurred in the colonies was the extension of British ideals far beyond the practice in England itself. The thirteen colonies throughout time all established themselves and soon developed their own identities. Colonies in different areas were known for different things and no one colony was like the other. These people began to see them selves as Carolinians or Georgians‚ Quakers or new Englanders. Most of these colonist’s no longer saw themselves
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