Bay colonies

Jamestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had many similarities and differences. Many of these differences were due to their physical location and climatic conditions. The success of both colonies can be contributed to strong leadership and the characteristics of the personalities of the settlers that inhabited each settlement. Many of the early problems in both settlements can be contributed to a lack of knowledge on the parts of the settlers along with attacks from neighboring Native American

them and driving them to the New World. The most well-known pilgrimage was that of the Mayflower. However, the more successful puritan venture was the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This colony would put into motion ideas of government, religious tolerance, and the treatment of indians. First and foremost, the government set up in the Bay colony was meant to favor the free white men of the church and no one else. No women or indentured servants were able to vote in the annual election for governor and assembly

which led to the Massachusetts bay colony. By letting them seek a new life, King Charles I approved by signing of the charter of the Massachusetts bay colony to the Dorchester Company. The charter states that people can choose who can govern them in the colony and the necessities the colony must have. The puritan leaders arrived and start to establish the colony based on God’s laws. “The Scarlet Letter” encloses a lot of the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay colony laws, and invokes them mostly on

In 1606 the London Company (later the Virginia Company) received a charter from James I to found new colonies. The London Company later sent a party of 144 men aboard 3 ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant, of which 104 survived the long trip. On the northern banks of the James River the colonists established a colony which they called Jamestown. This site was chosen very poorly and the colonists suffered from outbreaks of diseases and starvation

The Puritans are known for founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony. These people of the journey also set out for their self-government to be a commonwealth, which is a community founded on law and united by an agreement that the law would serve the common good of the people. Among these people who were busy trying

Charles I dissolved the parliament in 1639 ii) John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he helped the colony thrive with fishing, fur trading, and shipbuilding which made the Massachusetts Bay colony a very influential colony a) The freemen were adult males that belonged to the Puritan group, which later was called the Congregational Church, and people had

of a need to purify the church and their own lives. They followed the writings of John Calvin to America and formed The Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the original settlements, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England, under the guidance of Governor John Winthrop. In 1929, The Massachusetts Bay Colony received a charter from King Charles I allowing them to colonize in New England between the Charles River and the Merrimack River. The

Atlantic for spiritual reasons while the settlers of the Chesapeake Bay colony came solely for material reasons. I will attempt to prove this by using "A Modell of Christian Charity" by John Winthrop and "Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia" by T.H. Breen. I will

Provence of Massachusetts Bay The history of the American government took a wide turn until the 50 states finally established. As before the United States was formed from a series of small colonies, also known as provinces. Massachusetts Bay, in particular, was one of these various settlements. Massachusetts Bay, present day Massachusetts was established in the year of 1630, its settlers composed of the Puritans from New England. Puritans, are the ones who wanted to “Purify” the Church of England

claimed lands in modern day Canada and Brazil. It wasn’t long before other European nations began to dispute the Treaty of Tordesillas. England and France both tried to found colonies during the 1500s but failed pitifully. In the 1600s, France, England, and the Dutch Republic were finally able to successfully established colonies in the Americas. Unfortunately for Spain, they would not be able to control the expansion of the English and French into North America. England would soon become the dominant