...John Calvin (1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Calvin insisted the doctrine of predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation. Puritans are English Protestants in the late 16th who wanted their church, the Anglican church, to follow the Calvinist model more closely and give up the remnant of Catholicism. Among those Puritans there was a group of people who lost faith in the Anglican church, decided to abandon it, separated themselves from it. These became Separatists(Pilgrim). Pilgrims took the Mayflower to come to America to practice religious freedom....
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...Joint-stock company: A joint-stock company was a group of people that, through a system of exchanging capital and shares, were able to finance the colonies. In the system, if one company bought ten shares out of a hundred from another company, then the company that bought those shares would get 10 percent of the other’s profit. The same goes for losses. Charter: A charter is an official granting of permission to do something like an expedition. In colonial times, the charter issued by King James I acted as the first and closest thing to a constitution for the two Virginia Companies’ proposed colonies. This is because it gave them granted them the right to settle in North America (by the Atlantic Coast) and gave them the rights and privileges that English people in England would have....
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...Home Discover History Articles Notable Mayflower Descendants Pilgrim Biographies Commemorations Pilgrim Memorials Around the World The Society How to Join Society Information SMDPA News Newsletter JR PA Mayflower Newsletter For Teachers & Students Links Contact Membership Info Apply Now Eligibility & How To Join Proving Your Lineage Passenger List About the SMDPA Donate Contact Us Discover History Articles Comparing Plymouth and Jamestown Comparing Plymouth and Jamestown Written by Robert Jennings Heinsohn 1. Introduction Pilgrim families arrived in Holland in the spring of 1608 and in Plymouth in December 1620. In May 1607, 105 men arrived in Jamestown to establish the first permanent English settlement in North America. While the individuals in both settlements were English, the they were different in many important ways. To fully appreciate our Pilgrim heritage, it is important to understand the differences between Plymouth and Jamestown. This essay identifies major differences and explains how these differences affected the settlements during the first few decades of their arrival. 2. Royal Charters and Patents Sir Humphrey Gilbert c. 1539-1583 Early Efforts to Colonize North America Queen Elizabeth granted a patent (Royal Charter) to Sir Humphrey Gilbert (half brother of Sir Walter Ralegh) who led an expedition to Newfoundland in 1583 and claimed it for England. For the next thirty years he tried, but without success,...
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...Terms: 1. Bering strait- a strait between Alaska and the Russian Federation in Asia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean 2. Primogeniture- the state of being the firstborn child. 3. Charter- a document issued by a government that gives rights to a person or group 4. Mayflower compact- an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower. 5. Indentured servant- a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time 6. Apprenticeship- a person who works for another in order to learn a trade 7. Jamestown- a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607 8. Martin Luther- was a German professor of theology, priest, former monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. 9. Calvinism- a Christian set of beliefs that is based on the teachings of John Calvin and that stresses God's power and the moral weakness of human beings 10. Predestination- the belief that everything that will happen has already been decided by God or fate and cannot be changed 11. Separatists- a member of a group of people who want to form a new country, religion, etc., that is separate from the one they are in now 12. Heresy- a belief or opinion that does not agree with the official belief or opinion of a particular religion 13. Seditious- disposed to arouse or take part in or guilty of sedition 14. Blue Laws- one...
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...the trip to the new world for the persecuted Separatists of the Church of England. The Separatists were a group of people who were against the principles of this Church and they were intensely persecuted by the law. A big group could emigrate to Holland, where they could express their own thoughts. However, they also started to be persecuted there, so, Bradford, one of the Separatists who traveled to Holland, decided to go to the New World, where nobody could complain about them and they could show their faith without hiding. After a few problems with the ships, a big group (about 100 people) traveled to the New World in the Mayflower to set their own colony. They arrived to Plymouth and there, they found a lot of Native Americans who were called “savages” by the settlers that lately would be very helpful for them. During the trip in the ship, they decided to set a government, but the first governor died because of a huge wave of diseases, together with about half of the population. After this terrible incident, Bradford was called Governor. He did well, because he got getting well with the Native Americans establishing a good relationship of friendship between them, not as the first governor in their arrival (the Native Americans taught them how to grow different kind of crops. This way, agriculture turned the main source for the population in Plymouth.). However, relationships between the colonies that founded other English settlers were not as good as the relationships...
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...was for people to learn the ideals for their religion Puritans- a group of Protestants also called Militant calvinists that wanted to purify catholic churches. they used predestination for salvation, denied Christ’s presence with the Eucharist, and thought the heart of true worship was a learned sermon and wanted to free each congregation and ministers Separatists- these were people with an extreme level of protestantism. the puritans that did not settle for break openly with the church of england as the puritans, but to avoid all contact with Anglicans to obtain a pure church “new slavery”- the way slavery arose when the portuguese came into west africa. the demographics for africa’s people was exceeded to 12 million shipped cross sea and they were dehumanized but their living and working conditions. they were regarded as property. Encomiendas-grants of Indian land, labor, and tribute for wealthy colonists. this created many native american deaths from overworking, disease, and malnutrition. the hate from this inspired native americans to the Pueblo...
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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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...Puritans were English people who sought to “purify” the Church of England from within. They came by the thousands to the American colonies, although well after the Pilgrims. Pilgrims came to the colonies in small numbers. 102 Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower after fleeing Holland, and endured a rough winter on the stony coast of New England in the year 1620. Separatist pilgrims were more extremist Puritans who separated completely from the Church of England and moved to the American colonies for religious refuge. The Mayflower Compact was written by the 102 pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. Before disembarking, the pilgrims wrote up the document, which was essentially an agreement to form a government in Plymouth in which the majority rules....
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...Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700) First Paragraph Although Northern and Southern settlers were bound by a common mother nation, they were drastically different in economy, politics, morals, and motives. The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Martin Luther created doctrines for Protestantism and changed the religious world as we know it He ignited a fire of religious reform (the “Protestant Reformation”) that licked its way across Europe for more than a century, dividing peoples, toppling sovereigns, and kindling the spiritual fervor of millions of men and women Some of whom migrated to America John Calvin, inspired by Luther, created Calvinism and influenced many future American settlers Predestination, the “elect,” and the...
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...The both colonies were lead by English leaders that both went through very similar situations on a daily basis. The leader of Jamestown was Captain John Smith and the leader of Plymouth was William Bradford. These colonies both went through starving times, to losing many of their people from Native American tribe attacks. The two colonies traveled trying to find a place to settle for a better life. The main reason why they were trying to find a new place was because of the economic colonization problems these colonies were going through. These two English colonies settled and North America was born. Before Jamestown became a colony Smith became interested in the efforts of establishing a colony in North America. Once the English settled in...
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...Prior to the 1700s, some of the first American colonists were separatists. Separatists were Puritans who left England to escape religious persecution. The first were those on the Mayflower who landed on what is now called Plymouth Rock in 1620. One Puritan who fled around this same time was John Lothrop. Lothrop, along with his church congregation, left the English county of Kent and landed in southern Massachusetts in 1634. Unfortunately, disagreement split the congregation causing some to move to Martha’s Vineyard. Martha’s Vineyard is the earliest and perhaps the most unique record of a Deaf community in northern America. Martha’s Vineyard is an island off the coast of Massachusetts. What made it do unique was that nearly everyone there...
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...mostly former indentured servants, no property, unemployed, eager for land, large, unstable 12. Result of Bacon’s Rebellion: Virginians recognize interest in avoiding social unrest from below→ turned to slave trade V. The Growth of New England A. Religious Repression: England- Puritan Separatists imprisoned/killed for defying...
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...The religious and economic rivalries between European nations allowed for England to become the frontrunner in colonization in North America which caused the modern day Atlantic Coast of the USA to become religiously and economically diverse. There was competition about the religion and the spreading of religion. Also, there was competition regarding economics, the conflict was about mercantilism. Meanwhile, there were different religions throughout the English colonies. Finally, there was ethnic diversity within the colonies as well. All of these contributed to the religious and economic diversity today. There were two rivalries happening in the colonies; the religious and economic rivalries. First, the religious rivalry was about the...
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...In 1607, one hundred and four Englishmen were sent to North America to begin a new settlement. They settled in Tsenacommacah, an area near Chesapeake Bay. The men established the colony as Jamestown. After disputes in England, puritan separatists left England on their own financing and settled a new colony, Plymouth, in 1620. While both Jamestown and Plymouth originally established a legislative government, they diverged by the people of Jamestown seeking money and those of Plymouth looking for religious freedom. The settlers at Jamestown were members of the Church of England, contradicting the settlers at Plymouth who were separatist from the Church of England. The settlers that came to what is known as Jamestown and Plymouth were...
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...Christian nation and does not recall Christianity or God at all. It appears just as a document that establishes the structure of the new government of the nation. In the same way, the First Amendment protects the individuals’ rights to practice one’s own religion, but does not mention Christianity at all (“God and the Constitution”, 2007). It states instead that the Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, buy despite of that, it is clear that the foundational documents that preceded the U.S. Constitution were influenced by a Christian worldview. Moreover, many of the founders were professing Christians and showed their faith in public...
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