Massachusetts

In Puritan belief, life was planned according to God, and a society worked to live out that plan. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was a closely integrated group that worked together to fulfill the wishes of a larger community. Puritans religious beliefs produced ideas that God’s will was to lead a community based on peace. God had set high expectations for a happy and trustworthy community. However, if a community did not live up to the expectations, God would destroy the community. Therefore, Puritan

For the most part, the settlers who settle in the Massachusetts Bay were called the Puritans and they were more religious conscience than most of the settlers. In the text, we learned that in “1623 the Council of New England granted land to the Dorchester Company to plant a colony of fishermen in what is now Massachusetts (Reich, 2011, p. 71). Initially, the plan fail and the settlers left, but the some remained and founded the town name Salem (Reich, 2011, p. 71). Eventually, politics played a major

I think that the development of both the Jamestown Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and their influence on the growth of the Thirteen Colonies is very prominent. Jamestown had a major part in the development of Plymouth, news of the New World in Virginia motivated the Puritans to leave their home towns. Plymouth and Jamestown encouraged many people to leave there home lands which lead to the 13 colonies. The Jamestown colony was unprepared and in search of only one thing, gold. First

The Massachusetts Bay colony and the Virginia colony were both English colonies founded around the same time period in the early 17th century. The Virginia colony somewhere between 1607 and 1611, and the Massachusetts colony in 1629. Though similar they faced different challenges, such as the Massachusetts colony in King Philip's war or the Virginia colony dealing with Bacon's rebellion. . The Massachusetts Bay colony was originally founded by a group of Puritans who were led by John Winthrop. John

Similarities and Differences in Virginia and Massachusetts Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 and after 22 years, the Puritans established Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth. These were two British colonies, but they came here with a different ideology and different reasons. Virginia has been used for economic reasons and a place to make a profit, and came very few families came only nobleman. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was more organized, but the Puritans came here for religious reasons. Two

The Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century was incredibly intolerable towards any religious ideology that opposed the Puritan authority and when clashed with the ideals of Anne Hutchinson, the event forever marked the beginning of religious tolerance in the New England Colonies. The Massachusetts Bay Colony, like many other towns in New England “banished individuals for such offenses as criticizing the church or government” (Foner 71). As discussed in small group lecture, the community

During the American colonial period, the presence of patriarchy was undeniable in both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Chesapeake colony, but little is known about the important roles that women filled. Although there were many shared roles among women in both colonies, their level of importance in the success of their colonies differed. The Massachusetts Bay Colony women were more essential to the success of their colony than the women of the Chesapeake colony, especially with regards to its economy

the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded as a haven for religious freedom for all early colonist, principally for the Puritans. Unlike any other migrating group in America, the Puritans were composed of families who sought the religious freedom and harmony they were unable to experience in England. ¹ These Massachusetts Bay settlers sought to achieve this haven by devising a system of government that would fulfill political and moral authority. By the 1640s their enterprise at Massachusetts Bay had

to these Virginia and Massachusetts Bay colonies during the Great English Migration of the 1630s. While Both colonies’ common English origin lead to them implemented similar forms of government, their differing climates and population characteristic would lead to differing economies and systems of labor that would shape the future of the United States. Although they traveled to a new continent across the Atlantic, the people of both the Virginia colony and the Massachusetts colony implemented a similar

In the years 1607 and 1630, the world saw the beginning of two very important English colonies; Jamestown, Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. England had many reasons behind their colonization. A major reason was the idea of Mercantilism, a concept in which colonies are said to exist solely for the benefit of their mother country. The Virginia Company went to Jamestown in 1606 in hope of using the land to cultivate crops and to make a living. In 1630, the Non-Separatist Puritans went to the