Plymouth Have you ever been worried that you would die before confessing all of your sins? In the Plymouth Colony‚ people did that. The Plymouth Colony was the most healthy and safe European Colony in North America. It was an English colony founded on the coast of Massachusetts. It was active from 1620 to 1691. The first residence of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth‚ a location earlier observed and named by John Smith. The settlement‚ which was the capital of the colony‚ is now a town in
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THE PLYMOUTH THANKSGIVING STORY By Chuck Larsen When the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1620‚ they landed on the rocky shores of a territory that was inhabited by the Wampanoag (Wam pa NO ag) Indians. The Wampanoags were part of the Algonkian-speaking peoples‚ a large group that was part of the Woodland Culture area. These Indians lived in villages along the coast of what is now Massachusetts and Rhode Island. They lived in round- roofed houses called wigwams. These were made of poles covered
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In the two literary works‚ "A Description of New England‚" by John Smith and "Of Plymouth Plantation‚" by William Bradford‚ the two authors represent New England differently. One way they represent New England differently is by the tone of how they tell their personal stories‚ varies noticeably. Both authors use certain tones to attract and persuade targeted audiences. John Smith wrote of what a wonderful place New England was‚ while on the other hand Bradford wrote about the difficulties and realities
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TOPIC: What was the role of enslaved women on the British West Indian Sugar Plantation? RATIONALE In history women have been often perceived as useless and inadequate. This assessment is to highlight the role of enslaved women who resided and worked on the sugar plantations in the British West Indian islands before the abolition of slavery. In order to effectively understand the enslaved women’s role and situation‚ their social and economic states have to
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The historical narrative Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford tells about the once struggling Pilgrims making a good life for themselves with the help of the Indians. Leaving all civil parts of the world behind the Pilgrims set off. After 66 days aboard the Mayflower they reached Cape Cod on November 11th‚ 1620. The exhausting expedition brought disease and sickness to the travelers. When they arrived they had no houses‚ towns or welcoming faces to greet them. The natives to the land seemed
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sixty-five-day voyage aboard a single ship‚ the 180-ton Mayflower. They were headed for Virginia but got blown off course and instead decided to found their colony in Cape Cod in what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They called the colony Plymouth after the harbor in England from which they departed for the New World. Since the new location for their colony was outside the areas claimed by the two chartered joint-stock companies‚ they considered themselves technically independent and created
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Great writers of American Literature were representatives of the two sides and were determined to set this country apart from the rest of the world‚ even if that meant going to war or asking other countries for help. In William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation‚ he talks about the successes of the pilgrims so far as if trying to convince
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Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies The Reformation was the driving force behind English Catholic dissenters‚ many of which would eventually form the base of groups heading for new lands to find religious freedom. These people would come to be called Puritans and their goal was to purify the Church of England. They wanted to do away with the “offensive” features such as Church hierarchy and traditional rituals of Catholic worship in order to promote a relationship between the individual and
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In the writings "A Description of New England" by John Smith and "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford‚ the tone of these two selections vary noticeably. Both authors use certain tones to attract and persuade certain audiences. John Smith wrote of what a wonderful place the New World was‚ while on the other hand Bradford wrote about the difficulties and realities of the New World. Author John Smith‚ a pilgrim who arrived in the Americas‚ writes a description of the new land. In "A Description
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culture and tradition. There are so many ways the stories‚ “History of Virginia” and‚ “Of Plymouth Plantation” make today what we are and what the world’s community is. Between these two stories there are so many differences and similarities. In this essay I will compare and contrast both stories and talk about what happened. These two stories both take place in two different colonies; Jamestown and Plymouth. In the story‚ “History of Virginia” there are many different parts to the story. The story
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