The Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Their destination? The New World. Although filled with uncertainty and dangers, it offered both civil and religious liberty. For over two months, the 102 passengers took on the merciless waves of a crazy psychotic sea.
According to historyisfun.org The Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, carrying 105 passengers, one of whom died during the voyage, departed from England in December 1606 and reached the Virginia coast in late April 1607. The expedition was led by Captain Christopher Newport. On May 13, after two weeks of exploration, the ships arrived at a site on the James River selected for its deep water anchorage and good defensive position. The passengers came ashore the next day, and work began on the settlement; creating the foundation of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony. Initially, the colony was governed by a council of seven, with one member serving as president.
Pilgrims @ Plymouth Some 100 people, many of them seeking religious freedom in the New World, set sail from England on the Mayflower in September 1620. That November, the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts. A scouting party was sent out, and in late December the group landed at Plymouth Harbor, where they would form the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England. These original settlers of Plymouth Colony are known as the Pilgrim Fathers, or simply as the Pilgrims. The Mayflower Voyage The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church.
On June 7, 1610 the colonists said goodbye to Virginia. They headed down the James River and on June 8th, they were met by a longboat. “The man piloting the longboat, Captain Edward Brewster, reached the Deliverance, he handed Gates a letter, which rerouted the governor’s course and that of American history.”1 Lord De La Warre had been dispatched from England to take over Jamestown after the charter and leaders of Jamestown were lost at sea. He brought three ships, carrying one-hundred fifty settlers and plenty of supplies to care for the colonists at Jamestown. The decision to return to the colony that they had just abandoned did not sit well with many of the starving colonists, but the arrival of supplies and new leadership was enough to convince Sir Thomas Gates that returning to Jamestown was the best
1619. The year that significantly shaped the nation as it is viewed today. On July 30th, the House of Burgesses forms in Virginia, establishing the 1st elective American governing body, and months after on December 4th, colonists from England disembarked in Virginia and gave “thanks to God” considering it the first Thanksgiving celebrated in the Americas. However, between these two events was another that had an immense socioeconomic influence and could possibly be considered the most important of the three in some cases. Reportedly, on August 20th, approximately twenty slaves aboard a Dutch vessel landed in Jamestown and were then sold or traded into servitude in exchange for other resources; the first slave trade made in the Americas.
I decide to choose Saint Alexander of Jerusalem. One reason is that his feast day March 18th two days after my grandmother’s birthday that way both of my grandparents can be part of my confirmation. My Grandfather is still alive, he is 92, but my grandmother died in 1998. Saint Alexander of Jerusalem is sometimes called Saint Alexander of Cappadocia because he was the bishop of Cappadocia. Saint Alexander was persecuted for being a Christian.
Emotional camp meetings took place and religious meeting were organized by Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterians. Southern Baptist and Presbyterians were in favor of “ protracted meetings”, where guest preachers would preach up to two weeks. This moral reform was applied in society as well as the church. People were beginning to come back to God and praise him for days at a time. The northerner part of the Second Great Awakening inspired a movement for social reform.
He would not see Morocco again for twenty-four years. He travelled to Mecca overland, following the North African coast across the sultanates of Abd al-Wadid and Hafsid. The route took him through Tlemcen, Béjaïa and then Tunis where he stayed for two months. For safety, Ibn Battuta usually joined a caravan to reduce the risk of an attack by wandering Arab bedouin. He took a bride in the town of Sfax, the first in a series of marriages that would feature in his travels.
The notion of Jubilee which could also be known as the “Year of the Restoration” is a special year of forgiveness and the release of the sinners, which began at the end of seven cycles of “Sabbatical years”. The year of the Jubilee year was mentioned in Leviticus 25 to occur every fifty years, in which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debtors were free from debts, sinners were to be forgiven and the owners of a land were to be returned to them. The book of Leviticus was written between 1440 and 1400 B.C and throughout chapter 25 of Leviticus, the people who “camped at the foot of Mount Sinai” were given rules and laws to help with guidance that will alter their relationship with God. Some of the ideals that were to be achieved in the Hebrew community included Freedom, restoring people’s dignity protecting the vulnerable and restoration of the land. Freedom stands for something greater than just having the right to act the way we want, it also stands for securing everyone an equal opportunity for life, liberty, and happiness.
ACA 111 13 February 2012 The Mexican culture is full of religious traditions and proud traditional holidays which span over 500 hundred years. My writing assignment will cover the Mexican religious traditions and holidays. When Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521, the missionaries came into the area and converted the indigenous people to Catholic. So during the first decade of the Spanish rule, thousands of Mexicans converted to Catholicism. El Dia de los Muertos ( Day of the dead) is celebrated every Autumn in Mexico.