The Mayflower: The New American Frontier

It all started when a crew of one-hundred two people abandoned their homeland in search for freedom. After a long and hazardous journey, the pilgrims finally made it to land. Before landing the heads of the pilgrim families and heads of the non-pilgrim families made a compact to secure the peace between both of them. Today, the compact is known as “The Mayflower Compact”. They took their first step on an unknown vast land hoping to build a greater future, a future with freedom as virtue. Not everything went as the pilgrims thought it would go, more than half the settlers died from a contagious disease that almost swept the new colony. They were unfamiliar with the agriculture, so they could not harvest healthy vegetation. Their food supply was running low. Now, all they had was hope, hope to survive to live a free life and spread the gospel of kingdom of Christ. To survive, they had to make peace treaty

The Pilgrims arrived on the shores in 1620 in hopes to find a better life for their kids and themselves. Because of the restrictions and the lack of religious liberty, the puritans believed they could worship god the way they wanted and felt the right way. The Puritanism from Plymouth and the people that migrated there were eventually held together.

When they were on there way to Virginia they didn't have enough resources to continue on towards Virginia. They were also too lazy to go on any further so they landed on Massachusetts and they made a colonization called Plymouth. The only reason they made Plymouth is for religious persecution.

On September 6, 1620, 102 men, women and children from England boarded a small cargo boat called the Mayflower and set sail for the New World. The passengers left their homes in England in search of religious freedom from the King of England. Today they are known as "pilgrims."

The creation the Mayflower compact was a very significant event in the history of the United States because of its example of a the first type of government in North America. The Mayflower Compact was draw up by a group of people known as Pilgrims in 1620. These people, mostly English, were in search of more religious freedom and better lives in the New World. 100 pilgrims began this journey in September of 1620 (History.com staff). Before, landing in New England, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact. This legal document created “just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices” (History.com staff). This was the first example of a self-government in the New World. The founding fathers would later use many of the ideas in the Mayflower Compact in other governing documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Through these examples, it is clear that the Mayflower Compact is significant to American history because it provided many ideas of self government that are still used in our governing documents today.

     The pilgrims were a group of people who branched off from the puritans, who later became separatist, and came to the New England colonies seeking religious freedom and escape of persecution from England, whose ruling party was Anglican and hated the Catholics and the Protestants. Originally the pilgrims immigrated to Holland ,but due their children adopting the Dutch culture into their

When the Mayflower sailed over to the New World, on the boats were Puritans that were looking for a change in the way that their religion was practiced where the Chesapeake settlers came over for gold. Alongside the Puritans were the Separatists who

The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the “Saints”, later they were called Pilgrims. They left England trying to run from religious persecution by King James.

The colonization of New England started with a king who chose his enemies unwisely. Succeeder of Elizabeth I in 1603, James I vowed to purge all radical Protestant reformers, especially the Puritans whom were made up of Presbyterians and Congregationalists. So in an attempt to flee from persecution, they set off for a new land to build their utopia. In November 1620 some 88 “Pilgrims” set anchor at a place they called Plymouth (on today’s coast of southeastern Massachusetts). They were shaken by shipboard mutiny, sick with scurvy, and weak from mal nutrition. Few foreseen founding the first permanent European settlement in New England. Many did not live long enough to enjoy the distinction. They arrived too late to plant crops due to weather and only brought enough food to last a month. By the spring of 1621, half of the Pilgrims laid dead. Plymouth might also ended up a tragedy like their Jamestown counterparts except they received better treatment from the native Indians. The Wampanoag’s controlled the land around Plymouth, and was eager to obtain trade goods and assistance against their native enemies. Their chief agreed to help the starving colonists. In the beginning they communicated through a Wampanoag named Squanto. Squanto had been captured by English sailors and taken to England where he learned English. The Pilgrims openly accepted the help and hospitality from the natives, and after their first successful

The Pilgrims voyaged to America around 1602 and they were off to a bad start when it came to colonize the new land. A while after the Pilgrims had landed in America, they decided to make William Bradford the governor of their new government, which he continued on out for the rest of his life. Throughout the time that the Pilgrims were in America, they suffered many deaths that were not expected to occur. Many important people to the government had died due to lack of supplies. The Pilgrims did not have the medicine or the food to provide each other when they came down with sickness and

Jametown traveled to England claiming land and riches.The Pilgrims were selfish and only traveled and cared for gold,silver and land. In addition, the Puritans traveled because they wanted religious freedom and wanted to live peacefully.They escaped their church and traveled to have the freedom they wanted. Everyone wanted to believe in their own God and because of the escape they were able to do so.

As a result, they left and came to America where they created the "city upon a hill" which was intended to be a model society for how everyone and every community should live. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were dissenters from this group who were both banished. 1. Why was the Mayflower Compact significant?

Separatists and Puritans, people who wanted to leave or purify the Church of England, were the main Pilgrims who left on the Mayflower. It would later be called the Great Migration.They wanted to make a new colony in Virginia but were set off course by a huge storm and landed on Cape Cod. They then made the first governing document known as the Mayflower Compact. It stated that they all must listen and obey the laws of the colony. John Winthrop was a major effect on the 13 colonies and on Plymouth. He brought over immigrants and played a role as Plymouths leader for a

This location was an accident due to the harsh conditions they faced on the Mayflower. The pilgrims came to escape religious persecution because they were separatists from the Church of England. Before they landed, all the men signed the Mayflower Compact. This was their attempt to establish a system of government. In 1629, Charles I signed the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The leader of the Bay Colony was John Winthrop, and he was also a leader of the Puritans. Puritans were people who wanted to purify the Church of Anglican. From 1620-1640, the Puritans, in family groups, over 20,000 English men, women, and children, came across the Atlantic for religious purity. This was called the Great

The voyage of Englishmen to the new world was not just the search for a better quality of life, but also an escape from religious persecution. The creation of the Anglican Church raised conflict between various religious groups and the English Crown, especially puritans, so called because they believed in a simple and pure church based on the writings of Calvin. For the puritans, the expression of their faith in England was becoming increasingly difficult. Those who did not follow the Anglican faith were persecuted, and even punished with high prices (Deverell 12). After failing to settle in the Netherlands, puritanism followers departed to the New World. In 1620 at the port of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Mayflower arrived; a ship that brought