Mayflower Compact Up To 1763

The Pilgrims creation of the Mayflower Compact helped the average citizen have a role in government because the government and laws the Pilgrims chose to have for themselves in the New World was different from the monarchy and laws they were used to in Europe. In the Mayflower Compact, the Pilgrims state that they are going to combine themselves into a civil, body politic. They also plan to create equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices for the general good of the colony. The government the Pilgrims had allowed men in the colony, and their wives if they were absent during a town meeting, to vote. The colonists were used to having a Monarchy as their government who could create or get rid of laws at any moment.

As the Pilgrims arrived, the Pilgrims did not own the land. So Bradford and the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower compact, “a document that claimed ownership of the area... the agreement also set out to guarantee security against dissension (discord or quarreling) with the rest of the passengers... The agreement also provided for a government as well as a new religious society” (Saari and Carnagie 15-16). The Mayflower Compact set the rules for the oncoming people going onto Plymouth.

Historical Beginning in the early 15th century a group came together, calling themselves the “Company of Merchant Adventurers of London”.(3) In later years they would send a crew out to the New World, on a ship known as the Mayflower. Via their financing the Mayflower was able to make its transatlantic journey. Having reached the New World it was met with unforeseen circumstances, and wound up anchoring off of Cape Cod, near what is present day Massachusetts. With their original destination being Virginia, some crew members saw this as an opportunity to, “use their own liberty” to create a new civilization, as no one, “had power to command them”.(1)

-William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Before going ashore they thought of the boundaries, and as a result, the terms of their charter would not apply to their new colony. So in order to do that, they signed the Mayflower Compact. They pledge themselves to unite into a “civil body politic”, or government. Then the Pilgrims practice the religious freely.

In the 17th c., the Massachusetts Bay Company centered around the trade between England and the Massachusetts Bay Indians. Upon the realization that the original company charter issued by the king did not explicitly bind the company’s meeting to England, the Massachusetts Bay Company founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Great Puritan Migration. The Massachusetts Bay Colony consisted of a large group of Puritans-- those who sought to “purify” the Church of England of the remnants of the Roman Catholic papacy whose name was grievously tainted in the late middle ages. The Puritans were fervently loyal to their ministers who were under religious persecution by the Church of England. Therefore the Puritans followed their ministers to

The penalties for conducting unofficial services included imprisonment and larger fines. Under the policy of this time, Barrowe and Greenwood was executed for sedition in 1593. Scrooby member William Bradford, of Austerfield, kept a journal of the congregation 's events that would later be published about the Plymouth Plantation. Of this time, he wrote, however, after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but was hunted & persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these, which now came upon them. For some were taken & clapt up in prison, others had their houses besett & watcht night and day, & hardly escaped their hands; and ye most were faine to flie

They went out onto the streets and towns to alert the merchants to stop bringing in certain British goods. In 1769, Virginia House of Burgesses put into effect to ban the goods that they people wrote down to boycott in the Townshend Acts. All the colonies except New Hampshire were on board with the idea. The value of imports began to decline over the next years. (Out of Many, Page

Salem Village, as part of the colony of Massachusetts Bay experienced turmoil from external and internal factors that contributed to the crisis known as the Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692 to 1693. Being accused of witchcraft that lead to a trial was not unheard of before this event, however the scale and hysteria of the event can be attributed to a few factors. The mass hysteria experienced by Salem Village did not appear out of nowhere. There was a sense of unease and fear due to the ongoing war between New France and New England, King William’s War. Not far North of Salem Village there were raids of towns by Native American’s on behalf of the French, including Andover, Massachusetts where they burned the village, and in the following year

Among the most influential documents, the Mayflower Compact is what set up America by colonization. With the help of the Native Americans for food and survival hacks. The Compact was drafted on the eleventh of November, by 41 of 104 Pilgrims on board a ship called The Mayflower. These 41 pilgrims were called Puritans. The pilgrims landed in what is now called Cape Cod.

In 1628, King Charles I granted the puritans a royal charter to colonize the colony of Salem, the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. However, King Charles II rescinded this charter in 1684, following the colonist’s violations of

John Winthrop, a non-separating Puritan, was a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony that described the goal of this colony in his City Upon a Hill speech in which he says, “We must consider that we shall be as a city

Life in Colonial America was different for all those involved, which were the settlers of Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay colony.. Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay had similarities and differences. They each had their own unique leaders, form of government, economics, and ways of life, although all the settlers in these colonies had a deep dependence on God. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in North America, founded in 1607.

The Crucible vs Modern Day Witch-hunts A decade after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth in New England, a larger and better-financed group migrated to Massachusetts Bay. This group was called the Puritans and they were the “non separating congregationalists” which means that they accepted the ideas of the Church of England. In 1630, The Puritans set sail and created a small colony in Massachusetts as a haven after they fled England because of religious persecution.

William Penn, proprietor of this colony, was a Quaker who strived to build a religiously free colony, where anybody who had monotheistic beliefs was free to come—even if they were not deeply religious. Their goal was

The Mayflower Compact and the Arbella Covenant. During the 1600’s many people had standards of how one should act to be seen as godly. Both the Pilgrims and Puritans had their own set of ideologies of what was seen as good and what was seen as bad. The New World was a chance for spiritual freedom and new opportunities.