The Chesapeake Bay Colonies

After King Charles death in the year 1692, King James II later took over and merged the Massachusetts Bay Colony into what is known as the Dominion of New England. The main reason King James II merged the colonies was because he wanted to tighten his control over what went on in the New England colonies. Later in the year 1691, the new royal family, King William and Queen Mary issued a charter that had a lot of anti-religious aspects. Instead of giving Salem the original and much simpler charter, King William and Queen Mary decide to combine Salem with the many of the surrounding colonies. The new charter by King William and Queen Mary wasn’t much different from the earlier charter created by King James II.

The Chesapeake and New England regions of North America were made very different from each other. The main difference between the Chesapeake region and the Puritan region was that New England was more religion focused and the Chesapeake was more profit focused. The settlers coming to each colony also varied. For example in the Chesapeake colony of Virginia, most of the people coming where male, this also makes sense since people went to the Chesapeake colonies to make money it makes sense that only males went there (doc.4). On the other hand, some people that went to England were emigrants, meaning they were escaping Weymouth due to religious persecution (Doc.3).

This paved the way to a religious melting pot throughout the colonies, and along with it, more frequent persecution of religions in places that were not very tolerant. Despite England declaring the Church of England as the official colonial religion, most people completely disregarded it and followed whatever denomination they wanted. Unfortunately, some peoples’ views were not respected; Roman Catholics faced discrimination, especially in Maryland, where they were disallowed political rights and the right to practice their religion openly. Another religion that faced persecution was Judaism. Although the total number of Jews in America was never more than 2,000, they could only openly practice in Rhode Island; not even the Quakers in Pennsylvania were accepting of them.

I learned that Puritans claimed land that belonged to the natives just as other European settlers. This increasingly became a problem as the Puritans further disrupted the native lifestyle (Corbett 83). Further, the Puritans attempted to convert the natives to Protestantism Christianity just as the settlers in attempted to convert the natives to Catholic Christianity. To sum it up, “the Puritans often treated Native Americans with a brutality equal to that of the Spanish conquistadors and Nathaniel Bacon’s frontiersmen” (Henretta

Even though the colonists originated from England, many viewed themselves as Americans not English. To be successful in overcoming the British, Benjamin Franklin knew that the colonists had to unite. In Document A he constructed a political cartoon that

Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh had grants from the government to colonize America but failed as most of the settlers died. a. Roanoke Island- the site of the first attempted English colonization D. Motives for Colonization 1. Beneficial to the country a. National glory b. profit c. religious

Excluding the Quakers, none said a word against it. Indeed, many evangelists owned slaves. Instead of promoting emancipation in the current life, they promised equality to the slaves in the afterlife, so long as they would adopt Christianity. So too did Preachers make a renewed effort to preach to Native Americans, the first in many decades. Unreceptive to the regimented orthodox methods of preaching, a series of northern tribes “suddenly warmed to the new… mode of preaching” (359).

For most of the 17th century, the British colonies had been pretty much left on their own since their founding due to political instability in England. During this period, settlements outside of New England emerged, known as the middle colonies. These colonies were founded on Puritan believes, much like the other colonies, which followed the idea of living accordingly to the Holy Scriptures. Due to an influx of immigrants not only from Britain and Ireland, but also from other European countries, the middle colonies were a melting pot of ethnic diversity and religious tolerance. This tolerance also extended to the Indians of the region.

In 1607, the first permanent British colony was established in Jamestown in Chesapeake Bay region by the Virginia Company, a joint stock company that received a charter from King James I and sold shares to raise funds. The colonist, led by Captain John Smith, settled at the mouth of the James River. Early years were difficult, the colonists faced conflicts with natives, starvation, and difficulties finding stable sources of food and support. Experiments with tobacco proved successful and the exportable commodity became Virginia’s main source of revenue, providing many of its landowning gentry a comfortable lifestyle throughout the next century and beyond. Half of the settlers in the southern colonies came to America as indentured servants-labors

It does not however say that an individual in office may have no religious beliefs at all. The statements I have put in bold are those I believe can be explained by this, a persons’ personal belief. Though all these statements can be depicted one way or another depending on your own beliefs, my opinion lays that statements like that of the Declaration of Independence mentioning God further more shows that the founding fathers believed and practiced Christianity but just because they did, they were not imposing it on everyone else that would be affected by an official document like the Constitution. The fact that founding fathers quoted the bible again was a personal choice that does not need much more explanation.

Although pursuit of religious freedom lied at the very foundation of New England, in the middle and southern colonies it played a smaller role, and instead democracy and slavery respectively played the primary roles. The New England colonies, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were conceived and established “as plantations of religion”. Some settlers who arrived in these areas came for

The government had intervened to improve the transport of grain by railway companies since the large quantities farmers had where not being moved sufficiently. Prior, to the intervention the efficient free market amount was not reached, and with the intervention the efficient amount was only closer to being obtained. Now with the removal of the government intervention, railway companies need to expand their capacity to be able to accommodate the demand from farmers for their services for efficiency to be

Thus planed passed in General Conferences of the other two churches. From the beginning Methodism had never been protected to the racial dilemma. Since the beginning of the movement, preachers had proclaimed individual piety but, outside the walls of the church, they confronted the blunt realities of slavery. Thus, the 1939 reunification of Methodism intensely altered the polity of American Methodism, but at the same time regional influences were constant reminders of the nation’s racial divisions. While most black Methodists believed that church and nation were overtly racist, the Central Jurisdiction had not always been the subject of black criticism.

The Religious Freedom policy also influenced the colonies and the formation of the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson from the colony of Virginia was the primary architect of his state’s religious freedom model. In Britain, there was limited religious freedom through an established church known as the Church of England. A portion of taxes would go to the official state religion even if you were not a member of that church. In Virginia, they decide on freedom to exercise which, the other colonies and Britain had to some extent but they took the extra step and said that government should "not establish religion" so no government taxes for any religious groups.

America was founded for gain and reward; the impact was both positive and negative for the societies involved. Many Europeans were living in poverty and were unable to make money, so the New World was attractive for them. It was attractive because it was a huge landmass that was available to them at barely any cost. The Impact of having so many people want to live in the New World was that the indigenous settlements living there were immediately threatened because they were different than the Europeans therefore the Europeans disliked them. Many Europeans were negatively impacted because they did not know how to live in the New World, but once they got the hang of that they thrived.