Early Jamestown Colonies

Sailing the deep blue from coast to coast, dealing with illnesses that were thrown their way, fighting off intimidating savages, spreading the gospel, and forming new settlements that developed new freedoms for their colonists to live under were all breathtaking challenges John Smith and William Bradford overcame on their quest to settle new land. Never did they know that their documentations of these experiences would still be read 400 years later; and never the less one of them to be made into a Disney children’s movie! The ambition and determination that both of these men showed was the very beginning of the country that we know as the Land of the Free. John Smith and William Bradford shared some similarities in their writings, but the

    Give two examples of people who came to the English colony, and what did they do to contribute to pluralistic society we have today?     Two types of people who came to English Colony were Poles, people from Poland, and Africans, people

This would eventually offer a model for the churches in the “ motherland” and hope to reform the Anglican Church. But before founding the colony, Winthrop ( aboard the Arabella) wrote and delivered to the colonist “A Model Of

The author John Winthrop gave three distinct reasons on how to act fro the colony to succeed. “ First, hold conformity with the rest of his works” (35). This tells the colony that they will be in compliance with any standard law or rules. “ Secondly, that he might have the more occasion to manifest the work of his spirit” (35). The rich and the poor are no different and everyone is equal.

________________________________________ The year of 1630 is whenJohn Winthrop wrote his most famous writing called “Christian Charity”. In it is an excerpt of a political sermon titled “A City upon a Hill” in which he prepares early settlers to form a Puritan community within the New World. Winthrop believed that the settlers were all chosen by God to create a New society and that to have a strong Puritan community the settlers had to honor and be responsible for their duties and obligations to God.

An Obfuscation Between the Binary of the Uncivilized and the Puritans In her narrative “Sovereignty and Goodness of God,” published in 1682, Mary Rowlandson, for the benefit of the afflicted and for the dearest of friends, offers to readers an unforgettable vision of the experiences she witnessed under the captivity of the Native Americans during the late 1600s in the New World. Over the course of eleven weeks in captivity across eighteen different communities, Rowlandson recounts her experiences of learning about the values and culture of the Native Americans, as she desperately searches for food and shelter. This experience of living amongst Native Americans provides Rowlandson with the opportunity to forge a strong connection between the natural world and herself. In turn, Rowlandson fuses a Native American and Puritan perspective, which begins to dissolve a barrier of difference between the two clashing cultures and ideologies.

Religion played a great role in the establishment of the English colonies. The main reason the English traveled to North America was to escape religious persecution. Once the English settled in they created colonies, and established rules for a religious society. They would also try to convert Natives into Christianity, and they established universities to practice ministry. Once the English settlers got to North America, the House of Burgesses in 1619 said they would try to convert Native children specifically boys into a “ true religion”, then eventually teach them how teach them how to be Christian civil people.

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

Description The Jamestown[1] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began ... this was the first colony in the British Empire."[2 ] Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607 (O.S., May 14, 1607 N.S.),[3] and considered permanent after brief abandonment in 1610, it followed several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699.

Speaker: The speaker of this sermon is John Winthrop. Winthrop was a wealthy male Englishmen, lawyer, and Puritan who ventured towards the New World. I’m assuming this writing would be religiously bias, due to his beliefs in the Puritan faith. With the previous knowledge of him being a first-generation colonist; he’s presumably coaxing the colonist to become prosperous in the New World. Occasion:

The British colonies in the Chesapeake region and those of the New England region were both similar yet different in certain ways. One because both the colonist that settled there were looking for new opportunities. However, it was mostly second son aristocrats, which means the first born usually inherits the better half of the father’s riches. Their lives in England had either been mistreated or they were unable to flourish economically. Regardless of whether they were searching the land for expansive homesteads, religious freedom, or exchanging and merchant opportunities, the colonist in both regions were searching for another land in the New World.

Dontae Joseph AP U.S. History Grade 11 Europeans had gone to the New World is search of wealth, power, or religious reasons, all had hoped for a better than in Europe. Religion was one of the reasons why the colonies had first developed, it helped create religious freedom and allowed people to continues their religious practice without persecution. However, not all the colonies had centered themselves around religion. In the early American colonies religion had a big impact on the development in the New England, Chesapeake, and Mid-Atlantic Colonies.

As Back Story discussed, Winthrop explained to the Puritans that the world was watching them as they began the settlement in the New World. The colony they would start, he also added, would be exposed like a “city upon a hill”. He was, in reality, warning the Puritans to behave themselves and be perfect. Winthrop was not actually referring to the land. A core element to American Exceptionalism is American’s “spirit of discovery” and its obsession with expanding west.

Being the first two well-known places in which the English would set out to colonize in 1607 and 1620, Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts hold very separate set of beliefs, standards, and outlooks on life then and the future to come. While paving the way for things such as slavery, taxes, ownership of land, inclusion of women, tobacco and government assemblies, John Smith and the people of Jamestown became a classical foundation for new life and economic growth for the new world that is, the United States. On the other hand, William Bradford and his people began to realize the intentions of the Church of England were unholy and had strayed away from God’s teachings from the Bible. With this in mind, the Pilgrims set on a voyage to the new world to seek religious freedom. As we know it, the Pilgrims sought for peace and a new way of living that was fair, just and free from religious corruptions.

The English had come more prepared and well aware of what they were stepping into, they brought provisions and supplies, even though they struggled. It was not until the Jamestown settlement was established in 1607, a full twenty years after John White bade farewell to his colonists, that the next serious attempts where undertaken by the English to find out what happened to the colony in 1587 (Fullam 128). In early 1609, the Royal Council in England received shocking news from Jamestown that Wahunsunacock, Chief Powhatan, had slaughter the 1587 colonist (Fullman 155). Unfortunately, the Powhatan’s cooperation was necessary for the success of the colony (Fullman 157). But 1608, a letter from John Smith was delivered to the Royal Council with evidence that the Powhatan Indians weren’t connected to the Lost Colony.