William Bradford Lead English Christians On A Ship Named The Mayflower

Settlers came to america for it’s many advantages. The pilgrims came for land, self government, work, chances of their own children living longer, and there were also rumors of gold and silver in america. Settlers didn’t know what was in america but, they did imagine that there would be plenty of land full of opportunities, and work to be done. This small community could start to plant crops like tobacco, and because they had new and healthy crops because of how they learned to farm, themselves and their children lived longer. I found these facts in a prezi facts presentation and also in the historical america video.

During the reign of James I, a small group of these humble country folk left for Leyden, Holland, where they were allowed to practice their religion as they wished. Some years later, a part of this Leyden congregation decided to immigrate to the New World where, in 1620, they founded the “Pilgrim” colony of Plymouth.

The Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean. After getting blown far off course, they sailed around Cape Cod and found a protected part of the coast. They settled in a place they named Plymouth. There they created the Plymouth Bay Colony. Many more Puritans followed. English colonists in 1630 established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The governor of the colony was John Winthrop. He declared that the new colony would be a “city upon a hill.” He hoped the colony would be a model of holy Christian life for the rest of the world. Salem and Boston became two of the largest Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements.

Today we take sugar for granted. But do we really know how it became the enormous product that it is now, do we really know what drove it to become this monster of trade? When Christopher Columbus came to the new world, he brought cane sugar. He quickly discovered how wonderful the land and climate were for growing sugar. In England, many rich merchants realized how successful it could become with the number of slaves available. Before the trade took root in central America, sugar had been considered a delicacy. Now, as it became more affordable, the consumer demand increased. All three of these factors drove the sugar trade to become the most successful and rapidly growing trade in history. The sugar trade was driven by consumer demand, cheap labor and fertile land.

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."

In 1620, the Pilgrim leaders, who came to America on the ship the Mayflower, wrote the Mayflower Compact. The original document was lost, however a copy of it that was written in William Bradford’s journal, was found. (“Pilgrim Hall Museum…”) The Pilgrims were originally going to land in Virginia, but their ship got off course due to a storm. Instead, the Pilgrims and crewmembers of the ship landed in Cape Cod. They later became known as the Plymouth Colony. (Foner, 66) The Pilgrim leaders wrote the Mayflower Compact when they landed in Cape Cod. The men aboard the Mayflower ship signed the Mayflower Compact, which was named for the ship. (“Pilgrim Hall Museum…”)

Sugar is one of the most important items that was discovered in the new world back in the 1300’s. The reason for this is that in the 1300’s hardly anyone knew what sugar was until Christopher Columbus went to the Bahamas and came back to Spain with sugar in the 1400’s. So what drove the sugar trade?, well there are many factors that drove it some of them were Land meaning the natural resources used to make sugar, Labor, meaning human resources that are needed to make sugar, and Investment Capital which is money used to buy tools and land. Sugar could have become such a desired good due to the fact that people in Europe found out that there is such a thing with the qualities of sugar or maybe it could be because of the low cost of slaves

Well both Virginia and Plymouth had a reason for colonizing in the americas. It natural that any foreigner would want more money and especially in a placed where no one has touched it. They both had a purpose of being here in the americas, the colonist had good soil for the plantations and for growing new different groups in the field, and the pilgrims had a very rocky soil and it limited their farming skills, so the colonists had an advantage. The pilgrims were more involved in conflicts with the native americans that the colonists, they were both were but more them. The colonists from Virginia and plymouth both came for the british monarchy of England. Both colonies had some starvation rapidly going on in their civilizations and also a numerous titanic load of people died. When they arrived in the americas the native americans helped them by supplying food because they were not used to the different soils and plantations that they had back in england. The people of Virginia wanted to be wealthy and the puritans from plymouth came because of religious freedom and because they had religious persecution in their native homelands. Bradford stays as governor in the colonies until the rest of his life and John Smith does not stay, he leaves after an accidental incident happened and he leaves the americas and goes back to england. Both of their journey were not that of easy, they both suffered from

On April 10, 1606, John Smith (an adventurer) explorer and author, and his crew were sent by King James I to start a colony in Jamestown. In December 1606 the company sent out three ships carrying 106 settlers to start the new colony. On May 13, 1607 John Smith named the colony Jamestown in honor of the King. Years later on September 6, 1620 William Bradford (an English Separatist) went to Cape Cod, Massachusetts on the Mayflower due to fear of the assimilation into Dutch culture to start a new civilization. The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England on September 6, 1620. The 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of 30-40 in extremely cramped conditions. The two exploration narratives are similar in many ways but they both serve two completely different meanings.

In the novel Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick, the author educates us on how the New World was discovered and created. It all started with a group of roughly 100 men and women who originated from England known as the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were sick and tired of the lack of religious freedom and work/economic opportunities. There was no future for the Pilgrims in England. This was all until the group set sail on the Mayflower in order to find new land. After a rough journey, they came across a piece of land now known as New England. The Pilgrims settled here because it was relatively empty. They believed that in New England they would be able to create a godly city or a place where they wouldn’t be criticized for their religious views.

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

Plymouth did not face nearly as much hardship as the colonists in Jamestown faced because their journey to the new world took the expected three-month period. However, this did not guarantee the colonists success. Early into the winter several of the colonists became sick or faced starvation dude to the poor rationing of food in the colony. The local Native Americans helped the colonists and created the first Thanksgiving. William Bradford viewed the Native Americans as humane and intelligent beings and attempted numerous times to build the relationship between the colonists and Native

Jamestown was the Primary land that the colonists settled to in 1607 in the Susan Constant, 13 years later the colonists decided to settle in a land on the Mayflower in Massachusetts that the civilians would call Plymouth. I would've chosen to sail with Bradford in the Mayflower for various justifications which include the purpose, the relationships with comrades, the leader, and resources in the land. The first reason I would sail with the Puritans on the Mayflower compact is that the Puritans were not just in search of land and currency from resources, they were in search of something even more valuable, Religious freedom. The English soldiers (colonists) just searched for fame and wanted to become wealthy.

In his book, Philbrick charts out the experiences of the Pilgrims as they were on their search for the New World. He begins by highlighting the main motive behind such a dangerous voyage. The Pilgrims simply wanted religious freedom. In order to free themselves from the Catholic Church, they sailed to Leiden, Holland first. Here they enjoyed religious freedom for a little while; however, they soon realized that their children were becoming very Dutch. In order to still have the same religious rights, but also still be legitimately