How did family, work, class, religion, and state building differ in these two regions and why? The experience of individuals living in New England and the Chesapeake Bay region differed greatly in the seventeenth century largely because either group represented a specific relationship with the cultural, political, and social legacy of Europe. Despite its name, New England actually does not represent the region which had the most continuity with Europe, because the Chesapeake "was essentially English in its population, laws, institutions, and acceptance of gentry rule as necessary to social order" (Archdeacon, 1996, p
Specifically, the Puritans' lack of any particular plan for constructing their new, idealized society meant that upon arrival, they were faced with the reality of multiple, differing strains of religious thought that did not coincide with the strictly theocratic view of a God-centered society that motivated the Puritan movement as a whole. Because "New England's churches could not have been thoroughly 'Puritan' if they did not exclude, in some way, someone," the need arose to purge the city on a hill so as to ensure that it was populated by people who believed in the Puritan mission, or, if they did not believe, at least were willing to go along with its dictates (Carpenter, 2003, p
In recent years, more and more evidence has emerged that African explorers likely interacted with Native Americans well before Columbus ever set foot on Hispaniola. In fact, Columbus records seeing Africans who had apparently been living in the Americas well before his arrival, and "from 1305 to 1312, Abu Bakari II, the kind of Mali, sent two expeditions across the Atlantic" (Smallwood, 1999, p
As an inherently misogynistic religion, explicitly concerned as it is with dictating women's sexual behavior as well as excluding them from positions of authority, Christianity's centrality to early American colonies meant that women were not free to enjoy the same opportunities as men. For example, in 1681 a woman named Katherine Watkins "brought a charge of rape against John Long, a 'mulatto' man," and the nature of the subsequent investigation demonstrates not only how women were considered second-class citizens, but also how Christianity's puerile interest in maintaining strict standards of abstinence for women contributed to this second-class status (Sweet, 2010, p
While the European settlers and merchants who participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade were undoubtedly racist, it is an oversimplification to suggest that their actions were motivated by racism. Instead, one must recognize "that economic factors were most important in the end," and that racism is simply what allowed the slave trade to flourish (Thornton, 1998, p
Aside from the more well-known contributions Native Americans made to the settlers agricultural expertise, the colonies were also the site of interesting exchanges between the religions of either group. Although there were undoubtedly some clashes between Native American religious belief and the strict dictates of the early settlers, there was actually a fair bit of intermingling, such that "local residents regularly consulted cunning men, folk healers, astrologers, and diviners" (Winiarski, 2005, p
These virtues included temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. (Franklin, 1909, pp
For instance, one famous Puritan stated in one of his sermons that "the abuse of drink is from Satan…the drunkard is from the Devil." (Johnson, 2001, p
In other words, Franklin's ethical system was not only a guide for worldly success, but is also "…a sophisticated attempt to ground ethics on a naturalistic foundation as well as to show the crucial role of virtue in the achievement of spiritual growth, not just worldly success." (Walters, 1999, p
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PURITANS The Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral and societal reforms.