Dbq New England

Beginning with the southern Chesapeake colonies, the regions of North America were classified by their founding nation and structure. Several sects from all over Europe made North America their home throughout the 17th century. After facing prosecution in England, the Puritans and Separatists traveled to the New World’s northeast aiming to establish religiously tolerant settlements, whereas the Spanish Conquistadors explored the “West Indies” with hopes to exploit the Southwest’s piñata of expensive metals and non-Christian natives. Both groups shared the goal of a new world; however, New Englanders and the Spanish Conquistadores’ differed fundamentally in their initial motivation to explore the foreign paradise. Each group’s initial motivation

The colonists had different reasons for settling in these two distinct regions. The New England region was a more religiously strict yet diverse area compared to that of the Chesapeake Bay. The development of religion in the two regions came from separate roots. After Henry VIII and the Roman Catholic Church broke away from each other, a new group of English reformers was created called the Puritans. The Puritans came from protestant backgrounds, after being influenced by Calvinistic ideas. When their reforms were thwarted by King James I of England, they fled to the New World in what is now known as the "Great Migration". The Puritans were then joined by Quakers, Protestants, and Catholics in the religiously diverse New England area. These diverse religious factions were allowed to live freely but under the laws of New England. It was due to this religious freedom that these people came to escape religious persecution back home. The New Englanders had a religion-based society and religion was based on family. As the Bible highly regarded family, it condemned adultery. Adultery was considered a punishable crime. Adulterers were marked as impure by a letter "A" stitched on their

In the 1630's and the 1640's, the Puritans traveled to the colonies to detach from their opinion of a convoluted Church of England. They set up towns and started new lives that were all based on their idea of a pure religion. The Puritan's definition of a pure religion did not include many of the ideas of the Church of England. They built the colonies and made a system based upon the idea that God was the most important aspect of life. Puritan ideas and values influenced the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660’s by spreading their beliefs into every facet of daily life. Politically their ideas regarding what was considered sinful behavior and how power was separated among the

Puritans were a group of people that came to America because they wanted to leave the Church of England. They left the church because they did not agree with the beliefs. These individuals thought that the Church of England needed to be purified so they started their own church. To the Puritans, America was freedom, freedom of religion. Puritans wanted to do things their way, so in the 16th -17th centuries over 20,000 Puritans came to America.

The puritans were a religious group made up of people who wanted to "purify," the Church of England. The puritans were activist that wanted to get rid of the catholic system within the church. However, people in England sought out to remove these groups of people from the area because they saw them as a threat to their religion. This is how the puritans ended up in Massachusetts Bay Colony. The puritans moved to this colony in hopes of recreating and ideal community, a "utopian" society that others could look up to. The puritans ideal community consisted of peace and partnership; they wanted to remove all evil and improve the quality of life. The puritans then became strict to ensure that every person was equivalent in the eyes of God. I think the religion puritans created casted a fear in other people especially in England because they are so used to being ruled under one king. The

Church had an enormous influence on the Puritan religion. The colonist from New England had mainly come over for religious reasons because they did not agree with the Protestant Church of England. The colonist came to America in search of a new home and place to live where they could have a community based on their common religious beliefs. In their community, they had a closed society built around their church and activities. The Puritan life basically revolves around the church which influenced how they lived their everyday lives. They had to go to church twice a week, attend long sermons, and avoid dancing which was deemed as a sinful act.

In the 17th century church was the foundation of the people of New England. The main religion of the time was Puritanism which carried over when most of the colonist moved to Massachusetts. The main reason that the colonist moved was to find religious tolerance away from the strict Puritan lifestyle. Puritans believed that the smallest sin could result in a huge misfortune. They were also frowned upon for expressing their feelings and opinions, and were expected to have no individual differences. They believed in the devil just as much as they believed in God. The Puritan people constantly struggled between good and evil, which often led to giving into the temptation of Satan. Those who gave into the temptations and followed Satan were considered witches.

The development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660s greatly reflected the Puritans’ fundamental ideas and values in result of the large Puritan settlements in the region. The Puritans were deeply religious colonists who fled Britain in hopes of a better life where they could practice their beliefs freely. As a result of their practices in the region, they politically influence the values of the limiting power of the government, separation of church and state, and direct democracy. Economically, Puritans influenced the hard-work ethic, self-efficient farms, and fair business transactions in the region. Not only that, socially, the Puritans’ values led to greater emphasis on education and racial prejudice. As the Puritan

The freedom of religion is a rising topic at the time and ultimately causes the settlements in North America. One group that settled in North America were the Puritans. The Puritans believed they needed freedom, which they would find in the new world they were moving to. They also believed that they could save people from the English church and convert them to their beliefs. There is proof that the Puritans still shared beliefs with the English church, but didn’t agree with all of them, thus wanted to create their own version and practice it freely. (Lecture on Sept. 5th by Dr. Johnson).

When the Puritans made their initial journey to America in 1630, they possessed high aspirations and ideals in the hope that their future settlement at Massachusetts Bay would become a “city upon a hill”. The utopic settlement envisioned by the Puritans was supposed to serve as an example for the rest of the world in proper living. However, an increasing number of onerous factors and hardships fell upon the Puritan settlements, which would eventually lead to the diminishing of their once prominent religious faith in the colonies. Internal adversity as well as external conflicts between the Puritans and assemblies of opposing religious faiths was significant in contributing in their decline of influence. The Puritans intolerance of other religions became increasingly problematic as an expanding proportion of immigrants brought with them a number of different religious practices. The Puritans continued to condemn and try to impose their single strict religious code upon non-Puritans, but their attempts were ultimately unsuccessful as the Great Awakening and Enlightenments movements in the 18th century reformed the religious and cultural philosophies in America tremendously.

The Puritans, came over to the New World in the seventeenth century, fleeing religious persecution. The Puritans settled in the New England, and many of the people that came over were families. They believed that they could purity the Anglican church from the inside, rather than separating from the Church altogether. The Puritans heavily relied on what God told them through the bible, and their ways/laws shows that. When the Puritans came to over, they had several goals. These goals included social and political reformation, a self-sufficient colony, and most importantly a colony dedicated to God. In other words they want to create “A City Upon a Hill.” The Puritans had some failures along the way, and one of these

Puritans were strict Calvinist Protestants who claimed that the English Reformation had not fully purged itself of Catholic heresy. Their stringent way of life fueled the need to immigrate to the New World to escape damnation. Many Puritans felt that they would be unable to achieve salvation if they continued to live in England. As a result, fifteen to twenty thousand English Puritans moved to New England. Due to the fact that they immigrated with a healthier climate and had a balanced sex-ratio, English settlers soared in numbers in Massachusetts.

In the seventeenth century, there were many clashes between British settlers and Native Americans in New England. The British landed in what they believed to be a desolate wilderness which they would tame and civilize in the name of the Christian God. They viewed the people they encountered there as savage, primitive, and uncivilized-- almost less than human. The settlers regarded this new land as unowned-- theirs for the taking. The Natives, on the other hand, saw the British as greedy, entitled invaders who threatened their way of life, and their existence altogether. As a result, these two groups often clashed, and struggled to peacefully coexist. This can be seen in, A Relation of the First Troubles in New England By reason of the Indians there, which recounts, in detail, the various quarrels between Natives Americans and British settlers in New England. In this essay, I will argue that the document shows that conflict between the Native Americans and the British settlers-- war, violence, threats and intimidation-- was completely inevitable due to a lack of communication, a lack of understanding between the two groups, and the desire by the British settlers to conquer the untamed, uncivilized New World and the natives inhabiting it.

Puritans came to the New World because they believed the Church of England contained unscriptural elements, they wanted religious freedom. The Puritans felt the local officials should punish anyone that wasn’t living exactly how they interpreted the Bible. They noticed corruption of the courts and wanted to change the church from the inside. Charles I persecuted Puritan ministers, forcing them to conform to his theology or they would lose their license to preach. Basically they wanted religious freedom. Puritans were often considered neurotic individuals, who condemned anything they felt was ungodly.

Political tension and a religious crisis presented a need for a re-establishing of a society in New England where religious tolerance could sustain order and harmony in the colonies. This wasn’t exactly a foolproof plan as they thought it out to be, because of the recurring oppression they had seen in Europe. Puritans were a sect of christianity, one that James I was seeking to purge out of Europe during the reformation, that followed the almost brutal ideals of John Calvin. There was two branches: Presbyterian and Congregationalist. They believed in predestination, deplored the hierarchy of the Church, and allowed pleasures some would find odd for a religious group. The “pilgrims” (also called separatists) later became a different, and even