natives during Virginia settlement -Pequot War – 1637 Tensions over land and English power Pequots banded with other tribes Coastal indians band together Attacked Puritan settlements (Puritans would burn Indian villages) Puritans say God is unhappy with them because of the war. Last time in 40 years the Indians try to fight the Puritans John Eliot- tried to convert Indians to Christianity (Praying Indians) Translated bible into indian language -King Phillips’ War – 1675-76 -Metacom‚ Wampanoag
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he continued to document the challenges of the growing colony‚ which owed its survival to his energy‚ vision‚ and expert diplomacy. • His chronicle‚ Of Plymouth Plantation‚ is our best history of these adventurous times. • He was inspired by the ideals of the
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Jamestown and Plymouth: Compare and Contrast Traveling aboard the Susan Constant‚ Godspeed and Discovery‚ 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place they named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later‚ 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies‚ English settlement in North America was born. LOCATION OF THE SETTLEMENTS Jamestown offered anchorage
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William Bradford Dear colleagues‚ Today is a guest in our school‚ Mr. William Bradford‚ governor of Plymouth for many years‚ a true fighter for human rights‚ Puritan leader and one of the founders of the British colonies in North America. Bold and resolute‚ prudent and skilful when it was needed‚ William Bradford opened the door Puritans new life‚ new doors and unknown to the soil of North America. He was born in Yorkshire in the 17th century‚ where one of the conceptual leaders of puritanism
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due to scarcity of women/families & high death rate 2. Women in Chesapeake Society had bargaining power but were vulnerable 3. Social Hierarchy in Chesapeake: plantation gentry‚ yeoman farmers‚ indentured servants‚ slaves 4. Social mobility was very limited due to emergence of American-born plantation aristocracy C. African Slaves 1. Slaves imported due to a “need” for labor 2. Originally Africans were treated as indentured servants; But by 1700‚ slavery was
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with materials Indigenous to the Plymouth colonies. In the forward to “A Little Commonwealth” Demos states‚ “It was my wish to write a type of case study in early American life – a Study which‚ through sustained work on materials from one community‚ produces questions‚ methods of approach‚ and even some substantive conclusions that will ultimately have a much wider application”. When Demos first started his work he looked into the courts records from the Plymouth Colony‚ which he found to be negative
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Virginia Colony were founded by the Virginia Company of London which hoped to benefit economically from their investments. New Hampshire and New York were also founded for commercial reasons. On the other hand‚ Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony were founded by Separatists and Puritans who hoped to practice their religion freely. Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were founded for similar reasons. It was both the drive for the commercial profit and religious freedom that produced English colonies
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on their adversitie…’” --William Bradford‚ Of Plymouth Plantation Who were the Puritans? Heavily influenced by John Calvin and believed in predestination: God had already decided who would be saved. Each believer had no way of knowing which group they were in. Felt that the Church of England had become a product of political struggles and man-made doctrines. Unlike the Pilgrims‚ who wanted to separate from the Anglican church‚ most Puritans did not want a complete break. They wanted to reform
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colonists worked on their tobacco plantations and exported the tobacco back to Great Britain (Tindall & Shi‚ 38). Massachusetts The Massachusetts Bay colony was more into religion than as a land where people settle. It all started around the year 1620‚ a time when a large group of people as we call Pilgrims settled in Plymouth (Tindall & Shi‚ 43). These pilgrims were known as separatists‚ which were the more radical group of Puritans (Tindall & Shi‚ 42). Plymouth was the name that the Pilgrims
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“Captain Smith also made very detailed maps of the New England coast and it was likely that his maps were used to find the next English settlement” 6http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=17zCU76ZtH0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=new+plymouth+colony&ots=Tl5SIhABFv&sig=iKSTmRIXtoGAPdx0AzpAG8b0O3M#v=onepage&q&f=false 7http://books.google.com/books?id=XxM9AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false The
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