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. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade under the relatively lenient Dutch laws. Due to economic difficulties, as well as fears that they would lose their English language and heritage, they began to make plans to settle in the New World. Their intended destination was a region near the Hudson River, which at the time was thought to be part of the already established colony of Virginia. In 1620, the would-be settlers joined a London stock company that would finance their trip aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship, in 1620.
“Unit One Assignment-Focus on Puritanism and Travel Narratives in Colonial America (<1600-1783): The Journals of Captain John Smith, Edited by John M. Thompson” Captain John Smith, was an English soldier and an adventurer, as well as one of the founders of Jamestown, Virginia. Smith also led many expeditions exploring the Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast. Smith was just one of a hundred and five settlers who set sail from England in1606 looking for something new, and arrived in Virginia in 1607. When they reached North America, the group opened sealed instructions and learned that Smith had been chosen to be one of the new seven leaders of the colony. This was also controversial since Smith had been accused of mutiny while on the voyage.
A Comparison on the Colonization Techniques of England and Spain and the resulting outcomes Spain and England are known leaders of the Colonization of the New World. Both countries had a very different approach to how they colonized the New World, and both of them reaped different benefits from colonization. Spain had started their colonization process in 1492 when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World; in 1493 Spain had established their first Colony of Hispaniola. Almost 100 years later, in 1587 England entered the arena with their first settlement on Roanoke Island. This establishment quickly collapsed and the first permanent English colony of Jamestown was established 20 years later in 1607.
(p. 1 European Exploration) In October 1492, Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic). Columbus believed that he was in the outer islands of the Far East, and he made three more voyages in search of a path to Asia. During the last three voyages, Columbus reached the major islands of the Caribbean, which he named the West Indies. It was not until 1507, a year after Columbus's death, that cartographer Amerigo Vespucci suggested that Columbus had landed on an entirely new land that was far from Asia. (p. 2 European Exploration) Although Spain's new claims created the Spanish Empire, the extent of its lands was still unknown.
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
In his classic History of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford (1588-1657), the Pilgrim leader, explains why the Pilgrims decided to leave the Netherlands in 1619 and establish a new community in the New World, as it turned out, in Massachusetts. In this selection, he also describes how the Pilgrims were assisted by an Indian named Squanto. Squanto's story illustrates the way that the entire Atlantic world became integrated in wholly new ways during the seventeenth century and the impact this transformation had upon real-life individuals and communities. A Patuxet Indian born around 1585, Squanto had grown up in a village of 2000 located near where the Pilgrims settled in 1620. In 1614, Captain John Smith had passed through the region, and one of his lieutenants kidnapped Squanto and some twenty other Patuxets, planning to sell the Indians in the slave market of Malaga, Spain.
Little is known about his childhood and his education but he joined the Spanish army when he was about 23. During the Battle of Lepanto, Miguel was injured for life. As he was traveling home after his service in the army in 1575, he was captured by Barbary pirates and enslaved with fellow Christians in the Algiers. His attempted escapes failed and it was not until 1580 that his mother was able to pay his ransom. Miguel got married to Catalina de Palacios and began writing plays and poetry in 1584.
He eventually returned to Stratford, and died around the time of his 52nd birthday, in 1616. Various critics or anti-Stratfordians would on the otherhand beg the question: “How could a mere grammar schoolboy from rural Warwickshire have known enough about courts and kings to write Hamlet and Lear”? “Where did he get his vast vocabulary and knowledge of the war to have written Henry V?” Doubts around Shakespeare’s work began two and a half centuries after his death, with different claims by an American woman named Delia Bacon. She claimed that the plays were really written by sir Francis Bacon, a lawyer and philosopher. Eventually Delia’s family reported that she had been removed to an asylum after trying to dig up Shakespeare’s grave, in order to search for evidence proving her unsupported claims.
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.
Many factors led to the rise of Protestantism, for example, events like the Black Death and the Western Schism. The most crucial factors were the reformers themselves. Two of the most famous reformers were Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus. Luther was a German priest who found the ways of the Roman Catholic Church to be corrupt, he fought the church until he was named an outlaw by the emperor, and shunned by the pope. Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, and Catholic priest.