...Why the Pilgrims were God’s “Chosen People” William Bradford’s story “Of Plymouth Plantation,” talks about when the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, and landed at Camp Cod. Bradford was one of these passengers and took notes and wrote down facts, people till this day can’t believe are true. He talks about struggles the Pilgrims faced and obstacles that they overcame. Through everything, God was showing them, or what they believed to be signs from God, that they were his “chosen people.” “When the faithful were brought low and then rescued from the brink of disaster, they felt utter reliance upon God” (Donegan). God was guiding the pilgrims and giving them hope, that everything will be okay. Nothing could have prepared them for the signs that God was giving them, to prove they were indeed his “chosen people.” Why were the Pilgrims the chosen people? No one knows, they only know the signs that were given by God, to support the fact that they were the “chosen people.” The Pilgrims were known as Separatists. The main reason for them leaving for North America was so they could have freedom of religion. They felt as if they would be able to chose their religion if they were somewhere else. “The separatist or Pilgrims was the more radical sect of Puritans which wanted to set up a new church separate from the Church of England, where they would practice the catholic religion as they thought it should be practiced” (“The Atlantic”). Some of the Pilgrims felt trapped in the...
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...The writings of Columbus, Castillo, and de la Casas represented vastly different points of view of the Spanish conquests of the Americas. In his first letter, Christopher Columbus mostly focused on the political victory of the voyage and arriving in the Indies (p. 32), and the splendor of the landscape including palm trees, mountains, and beautiful birds (p. 33). In the subsequent letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, Columbus seems selfish and one-sided (somewhat understandable considering that he was begging Ferdinand for forgiveness of his crimes (p. 35). Bernal Diaz del Castillo's account, however, was not clouded by much bias or opinions at all. Because Castillo was just a simple foot soldier (Castillo p. 42) and was left to follow the commands of Cortes and his other officers, he wrote more of a journal that described in much detail the arrive and battles in Tenochtitlan (Castillo pp. 44-52). In comparison, Bartolome de las Casas did not stray from showing his personal convictions about the overall Spanish conquest and treatment of the Indians. After becoming a priest, he expressed that he believed those who were executing these atrocities out on the Indians for want of riches and gold were not in keeping with Catholic teachings that many Spaniards claimed to abide by (p. 36). Though vastly different, the viewpoints in these writings work to demonstrate the cases that each man is trying to make for the intended reader. Christopher Columbus shows deep conflict and contradiction...
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...The writings of Columbus, Castillo, and de la Casas represented vastly different points of view of the Spanish conquests of the Americas. In his first letter, Christopher Columbus mostly focused on the political victory of the voyage and arriving in the Indies (p. 32), and the splendor of the landscape including palm trees, mountains, and beautiful birds (p. 33). In the subsequent letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, Columbus seems selfish and one-sided (somewhat understandable considering that he was begging Ferdinand for forgiveness of his crimes (p. 35). Bernal Diaz del Castillo's account, however, was not clouded by much bias or opinions at all. Because Castillo was just a simple foot soldier (Castillo p. 42) and was left to follow the commands of Cortes and his other officers, he wrote more of a journal that described in much detail the arrive and battles in Tenochtitlan (Castillo pp. 44-52). In comparison, Bartolome de las Casas did not stray from showing his personal convictions about the overall Spanish conquest and treatment of the Indians. After becoming a priest, he expressed that he believed those who were executing these atrocities out on the Indians for want of riches and gold were not in keeping with Catholic teachings that many Spaniards claimed to abide by (p. 36). Though vastly different, the viewpoints in these writings work to demonstrate the cases that each man is trying to make for the intended reader. Christopher Columbus shows deep conflict and contradiction...
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...AP US History – Homework The Mayflower Compact 1. On the Mayflower, there were two groups that were comprised. There Pilgrims, which was only 41 of them who were called Separatists. They wanted a new life in America so they could freely practice their religion. The rest of the passengers were called “strangers,” which included merchants, craftsmen, skilled workers and indentured servants. The Pilgrims and the “strangers” were different because the Pilgrims went to America for religious freedom. But the “strangers” were there because the Pilgrims brought them in order to increase the chances of economic success. These groups were similar by all of them being common people. 2. The events that forced the passengers to create and sign the Mayflower Compact were that they realized that they needed a temporary government because they were isolated in America and only an established government can come from themselves. Pilgrims and the “strangers” had an argument that the rules and regulations from the Virginia Company no longer applied to them. 3. The facts in the article that supports the Pilgrims were democratic are that the Mayflower Compacts continued the idea of having laws created by the people. They passed laws that benefitted the general good of their colony, which expressed the idea of self-government or democracy. The fact that supports the view that they were not democratic is that in the early years of the colony, Governor Bradford basically decided how the...
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...the Mayflower Compact and what is its significance in American history? More than three centuries ago the Virginia Company of London gave a patent for a settlement to some London merchants headed by Thomas Weston. Over twenty-four families were sent over to America on a small, leaky ship, called The Mayflower. These colonists promised to send lumbers, furs, and fish back to the Weston for seven years. After these seven years, they would own the tract. The leaders of the expedition and half the members were Separatist Puritans that had withdrawn from the Church of England. In November of 1620, this ship landed at Plymouth bay in present-day Massachusetts. They had no legal right to be there, thus the leaders had all the adult males in the group sign a document known as the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact is what the Pilgrims were gathered around in the painting, Architect of the Capitol, by Allyn Cox (1896-1982). This document constituted them selves as a “civil body politic” or government, thus establishing the Plymouth colony. The artist that painted the Architect of the Capitol wanted to capture the beginnings of America. He added the Indian on the left hand side to remind Americans who was here first and who helped our ancestors. The colors Cox used were very light colors not using any vibrant colors to portray peace and elegance. Cox’s painting is of the beginning of our government and also the beginning of the New World. The Mayflower Compact...
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...The Pilgrims originally planned to sail to Virginia on the Mayflower but ended up in America. On November 1620, when they landed in Massachusetts instead, they realized they were outside the jurisdiction of the Virginia charter. To implant their own form of government and to avoid a possible revolution, the leaders of the group wrote and signed an agreement. This agreement was known as the Mayflower Compact, which remained in effect until 1961. The Mayflower Compact was William Bradford’s first written attempt at self-government in American History. On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower, with 102 passengers known as the Pilgrims, on board sailed from Plymouth, England to Virginia but ended up in America. In order for the Pilgrims to reach their...
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...Slide One: During the American Revolutionary war, Joseph Louis Cook was a very high ranking african American officer and Native American Officer, and had a major influence on the war. The questions that will be answered in this presentation are: Why did Louis Cook help America in the American Revolution? What was Louis Cook’s role in the American Revolution? Why did people during Cook’s time honor him? Slide Two: Joseph Louis Cook was born in Saratoga, New York, died in canada, and was buried near buffalo New York. He fought the French and indian war. During the Revolutionary War, he fought several wars in New York, and was stationed at valley forge, which is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Louis Cook settled in New York after the war. Slide...
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...The Mayflower was the vessel that carried the first English Separatists, known today as Pilgrims, to the New World in 1620. When and where the Mayflower was built is unknown, but before it's most famous voyage, it was a common, well armed, English merchant ship that sailed cross-channel between England and France. On September 6, 1620 William Bradford and the pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower to Cape Cod. The first few days of their voyage were blessed with clear weather, but many people were riddled with illness. The first to die was a vulgar young sailor who often cursed at the weary, sick people and talked about how joyous he would be to cast them overboard and steal their possessions. He later died of illness himself and was the first to be thrown off the ship....
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...We need a Declaration of Independence, for the foregoing reasons as well as the good results it would have for us on the world stage. For example, other counties would be free to be our allies, and the world would cease to regard us as rebels. Magna Carta (1215), Mayflower Compact (1620) and Thomas Pine – Common Sense, January 1776 have great influence in American History. Magna Carta typifies those ideals of law and government which have spread to America and many other political communities that lie beyond the four seas encircling the island-realm itself. The world-wide diffusion of those ideals of liberty and justice deserves to be studied in its entirety, as a vast historical process which had its beginnings far back in the middle ages, and which has shaped and is still shaping in modern times the institutions of all the political commonwealths that owe their spiritual inheritance to England. The history of the Charter’s influence upon American constitutional development, as one phase of that vaster process, should be illuminating alike to subjects of the Crown and citizens of the Republic. Above all it teaches them that English political and legal ideals lie at the basis of much that is best in American institutions. Those ideals, jealously preserved and guarded by Americans throughout their whole history, still form the vital force in political thought and activity within the Union. As the Americans adapt their institutions to the ever-changing conditions of...
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta |The Magna Carta was signed between the Barons of Medieval England and King John. The |The Magna Carta established the right of due process and provided a basis of higher law that could not | | |Great Charter was signed at Runnymeade near the Windsor Castle and was an attempt by |be altered by executive mandate or legislative acts ("Magna Carta: Cornerstone Of The U.s. | | |the Barons to prohibit the King from abusing his power over the people ("Magna |Constitution", n.d.). | | |Carta", 2000-2012).. | | | |The Magna Carta consists of 63 clauses, many of the clauses address the English legal |Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution. (n.d.). Retrieved from | | |system. It states that every man shall...
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. Documents Summary What was its influence on the Constitution? Magna Carta Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an English charter, originally issued in Latin in the year 1215, translated into vernacular-French as early as 1219,[1] and reissued later in the 13th century in changed versions. The later versions excluded the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority that had been present in the 1215 charter. The charter first passed into law in 1225; the 1297 version, with the long title (originally in Latin) "The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest," still remains on the statute books of England and Wales. The 1215 charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties, and accept that his will was not arbitrary, for example by explicitly accepting that no "freeman" (in the sense of non-serf) could be punished except through the law of the land, a right which is still in existence today. Magna Carta was the principal document forced onto an English King by a group of his matters, the feudal barons, in an effort to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. It was followed and directly influenced by the Charter of Liberties in 1100, in which King Henry I had specified particular...
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...The Mayflower Compact, the Preamble to the Constitution, and the Star-Spangled Banner are all important documents that helped shape the United States. Each of these texts uses rhetorical devices to make their writing more persuasive or impactful. Parallelism, capitalization, and loaded language are all used in each of these documents to make their messages more meaningful and clearer. Parallelism is the repetition of similar grammatical structures in writing, which makes it more organized and easier to follow. In the Mayflower Compact, parallelism is used to stress the settler's shared purpose. For example, the text says, "solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together." The repeated...
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Complete each section below. Include citations for your sources. |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta |Magna Carta is a document that King John of England was forced |Magna Carta served to lay the foundation for the evolution of parliamentary clause | | |into signing. The document was a succession of written promises|of the United States Constitution and enforced by the Supreme Court. | | |made between the king and his subjects that he would govern | | | |England and its people in accordance with the customs of feudal| | | |law. ("History Learning Site ", 2000-2013). | | |Mayflower Compact |Mayflower Compact is one if the first governing document of |The Mayflower Compact called for equality amongst people and...
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...The Constitution that America’s government revolves around was heavily influenced by many different documents and events. To continue, most events and documents that heavily inspired the way that the American form of government is derived from a time where Britain was still in control of the colonies, and the people started to understand what Britain could have been doing better. The Magna Carta, Boston Tea Party, and the Mayflower Compact played a critical role in enhancing the United State’s government. One main document that inspired the constitution used today was the Magna Carta. The document heavily focuses on the fact that Britain did not respect the American Idea that is stated. In the Magna Carta, it is stated that every citizen deserves equal rights, and that “no man deserves to be stripped of his rights,” which also contradicted Britain’s form of ruling. This influenced how the constitution was written by causing it to include a statement that proved that no citizen would feel as if they lacked rights that Englishmen had. However, the government felt a further lack of protection of such individual rights, which lead to the first 10 amendments, aptly...
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...Documents | Summary | What was its influence on the Constitution? | Magna Carta | The Magna Carter gave the colonist the belief that they had the same rights and opportunities as the Englishmen. The 5th amendment derived from the Magna Carta(http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/) | The Magna Carta helped inspire the 5th amendment guaranteed proceedings for the law of the land(http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/) | Mayflower Compact | The purpose of the Mayflower Compact was to set up a government that the colonist can live by in their settlements | The Mayflower Compact served as the main foundation of the US Constitution. It basically laid down the basic laws that are present in it. . | Articles of Confederation | | | Northwest Ordinance | | | Declaration of Independence | Helped form the USA and separate from British power. The declaration of independence set up the rules for the new country | This gave the people the right to be free and to equals | Philosophers | Who was this? | How did his writings influence the Constitution? | Thomas Hobbes | Hobbes is the founding father of political philosophy(Hobbes, Thomas (1998 [1642]) On the Citizen, ed & trans Richard Tuck and Michael Silverthorne (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) | Hobbes basically said that each individual has the right everything. | John Locke | John Locke was considered one of Britains greatest Philosphers and the father of Empiricism...
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