...John Lothrop Motley once said, “Local self-government… is the life-blood of liberty.” It was a good thing the colonists set up a self-government when they wrote the Mayflower Compact. Their self-government and rule of law served as a model for the other British Colonies. Besides government, the Mayflower Compact also mentioned that the colonists had a huge devotion to God and their king. This influenced today’s society in the fact that many of Americans are Christians and patriots. Therefore, the Mayflower Compact has influenced the British Colonies and America’s perspective on things as well. The Mayflower Compact said that the colonists should unite to make laws for themselves, which set up self-government. Since their king ruled overseas,...
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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 two aspects of the Mayflower Compact I chose for the purpose of this essay is first, the idea that individuality was put aside and what was done was done for the “General good of the colony” and second, that the Pilgrims developed the Compact to live according to the “Glory of God.” These two things should have mattered greatly to my ancestor Isaac Allerton, who was the fifth member of Plimouth to sign the Compact. In doing such, he made a pledge not just as a signing male member of the colony but as the future Assistant Governor to serve the needs for the “General good of the colony.” It is my hope that Allerton’s intentions began as pure, with the plan to build up the colony, but I believe greed won out. I struggle the most, not with his money making schemes because I believe it is that outside of the box thinking that caused him to travel on the Mayflower in the first place, but with his set up of competitive trading post areas alongside those of the colony. I don’t...
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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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...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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...Virginia Company only to make the fortune, not to please God. Smith relationship with the Indians was very uncertain. Although Smith was nice to the Indians he never let them forget about what the English Steel meant. The story of the love-struck maiden Pocahontas was not vouched for by any of his troops. Many of his writing included Native American which he called barbarians. He also complained about these ritual-driven meeting and how it took a long period of time to get things straight or taking care of. On the other hand a man name William Bradford a Godly sincere person who believes in religion, prays a lot and gives God all the thanks for blessing him with fertile land keeping him safe. Bradford was an architect of the Mayflower Covenant. The mayflower covenant is simply an agreement between settlers who has rested on “the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith in which the Country and king is honor. He also creates boundaries of how the native and people of Plymouth should treat each other. Looking at how these two mean were so different at the same time, seeing things so differently seems so ironic today. Work Cited Baym, N. (Ed.). (2007). The Norton anthology of American literature (7th ed. Vols. A-B). New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN "Historic Jamestowne - Jamestown and Plymouth: Compare and Contrast (U.S. National Park Service)." U.S. National Park Service - Experience...
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...Description | How each resource can be used by the Mayflower Theatre | Buildings and facilities | The location of where a business operates. Every business needs some form of building to work in. It can range from a small office in a web based company to a massive warehouse for a company like Wilton Bradley Ltd. | They have a grade 2 listed building in which the theatre is located. | Materials & Waste | The type of materials depends on what type of business it is. Some businesses choose to help the environment by only having recyclable materials (paper, energy etc.). Waste is what isn’t needed therefore removed from the area. | The materials used by the Mayflower Theatre are things like paper, electricity for lighting and computers etc. These are all used when tickets are bought, profit is counted and throughout the day when the theatre needs lighting. | Plant & Machinery | These are the items used for physical movement in businesses. Anything needed to be moved or removed would be done by a piece of machinery which could be of any size. | The Mayflower Theatre uses things like fork lift trucks to move larger equipment on and off of the stage. They also have electrical testing equipment which are used for safety reasons. | Equipment Including IT | The things used by every business come under the equipment category. Things like pens and computers are all equipment used by businesses. | Computers are in the Mayflower Theatre which are all used daily for various reasons...
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...Philbrick starts with the Mayflower and the doomed Speedwell (the second ship that the Pilgrims intended to sail to the New World), and, in eminently readable prose, gives us details on the first winter the Pilgrims spent in the newly created Plimouth Plantation. If the book had covered just the voyage and the first year, it certainly would have lived up to expectations and the title of work; instead, Philbrick goes much further and gives us the stories of the Puritans, who colonized in Masachussets Bay, and the Native Americans, who really owned the land that these English settlers encroached upon. Philbrick continues his tale through the end of King Philip's War (1674-1675), where the descendants of the original voyagers on board the Mayflower claimed New England as theirs and started the process of relegating the Native Americans to specific areas (the process that we would later call "resettling the Indians onto reservations"). At the tail end of the story of King Philip's War, Philbrick brings the original Mayflower passengers and their descendants back into the fold. Unfortunately, he strays a little too much from the original settlement when providing us with the story of the war, which is why I give the book just four stars instead of five. I truly expected the book to focus exclusively on the voyage and the people that were passengers on that maiden voyage, along with new arrivals into the Plymouth Colony rather than the direction that Philbrick chose to take. ...
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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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...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 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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...1. Mayflower Compact – I choose this event because this was a big deal for the state, and this led to the beginning of thanksgiving. According to the text the “Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a tiny ship called the Mayflower.” The Pilgrims agree to abide by the laws which were made by their own elect officials; this agreement was the Mayflower Compact which was led by William Bradford. These settlers established their colony with the assistance of an English-speaking Indian named Squanto. In the fall of 1621, the surviving Pilgrim celebrated their good fortune with a feast which is known as Thanksgiving today. 2. The Treaty of Paris – I choose this one because this is the document that got us our independence from Great Britain. According to the text “Americans negotiated the official term of peace with Great Britain in 1792, in addition to peace, the resulting Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783.” After the treaty was signed it was recognized as American...
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...Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War The book titled Mayflower was published in 2006, by a very talented author: Nathaniel Philbrick. Raised by an English professor and earning his bachelor's degree in English at Brown University, and his master's degree in American literature at Duke University, he had the perfect training and preparation for becoming a writer. While Philbrick worked for four years at the Sailing World magazine, he wrote several sailing books and was offered the opportunity to start the Egan Maritime Institute in 1995.He has won multiple awards for his books and his book the Mayflower was a finalist for both the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times Book Award and it won the Massachusetts Book...
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