had to do colonization in the New World. There were many reasons for the English to look for the colonization of this new land. They believed that by doing this, their country would receive numerous benefits. The puritans in specific had a different perspective form all the others. Their main focus was to do it for their religion. The main reasons were religious, political and economic. There were two major powers when Queen Elizabeth the first was reigning the country; Spain and England. Spain was
During start of the 17th century, England started its colonization in America so called the “English colonization”. They started out by settling three main colonies; Virginia, settled by the second sons of wealthy men seeking for gold was located in the south, Pennsylvania settled by the Quakers a religious minority that valued religious freedom in the middle colony and Massachusetts established by the Puritans; the religious minority of England, was in the north. There are two main factors
Britain in 1629 quickly populated the New England colonies as values set forth by the settlers spread from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Unlike most other Europeans coming from their countries however, the Puritan settlers came primarily for religious purposes as they sought to create a more pure Christian society. Therefore the colonies’ development was greatly affected by the customs of the Puritans. From 1630 through the 1660s the development of New England colonies was heavily influenced by the
New England and Chesapeake were both the starting points of British colonization of North America, and one would think that the two areas would be very much alike. However around the turn of the century, it became very clear that the unique social/governmental, religious, and geographic/economic features of the Chesapeake and New England colonies have shaped the two British colonies into two distinct societies. The scattered settlers of the hot swampy Chesapeake Bay area settled for a much more agricultural
influence on English colonization in North America than economic and in that way America came closer to a nation. British colonies wanted the Indians to change into Protestant Christianity which was a worry for the Church. When the colonies became stronger, more people in Britain began to move to America. The survival factors of American was the Great Awakening Religion was really important to English colonies. That is why different groups, the Puritans and colonists in New England, wanted freedom and
The American continent was a new place where each country could place a seed in it and develop it in their own unique way. Two great empires in the 17th century, Spain and England, both jumped on this opportunity settling two different areas two different ways, with some comparable methods. The Spanish settlements in the southwest and the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England in the 17th century differed from one another in the way they interacted with Native Americans, and the reason for the settlement
wife. He then made himself head of the Christian faith in his country, but made few changes and after his death Protestantism remained in doubt. Pgs 25-26 21 - English Reformation A series of events in the colonial period that led to the Church of England to break away from the Catholic Church and also the Pope. Many things contributed to this such as the rise of nationalism and Calvinism which made anxieties within it’s followers to lead a better life. The relevance of the English reformation is that
continued his legacy. Maryland became a safe place in the New World for Catholics during a time that religious persecution was going on in England. Act of Toleration was an act passed in 1689 that granted freedom of worship to Nonconformists (Baptists and Congregationalists) but not to Catholics or atheists. It allowed Nonconformists to have their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers. Anne Hutchinson was a New England religious leader, mother of 15 and