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Early Beginnings: The Mystery of the Lost Roanoke Colony *Spooky Alert** (August 1587) 

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Early Beginnings: The Mystery of the Lost Roanoke Colony *Spooky Alert** (August 1587) 

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This was one of England's first colonies, they failed this time to be successful see what mysteries are behind this....

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke | COLOSSAL MYSTERIES

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The English finally succeed! Some of them were able to survive this time. This is where the story of the Disney Princes Pocahontas comes from! If you want to see a video about her, a link will be below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMMmvQNfnQ

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In chapter 2 Susanna meets a slave named John and tells him her father owns indentured servants. Slaves were common in Virginia at this time. This video explains the difference in more depth if you need clarification.

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Introduction of Slavery Explained for Kids

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Listen for just a minute or two to hear kind of how people spoke back then.

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The Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans First Thanksgiving (November 1621)  

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The Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans First Thanksgiving (November 1621)  

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The Wampanoag Native Americans and Pilgrim Settlers come together. Notice how tough times were.

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What is the History of Thanksgiving? | National Geographic

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Accent Skill Clip - Colonial American (Boston)

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(1630) The Puritans Arrive in Massachusetts 

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(1630) The Puritans Arrive in Massachusetts 

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The Puritans settled in Massachusetts bay, then colonized Boston, Salem, and others.
Optional: If you feel the need to review the differences between the pilgrims and the puritans.

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This video draws clear simple differences between the two.

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Try looking for Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
**Side note: A Break with Charity will refer to the people who live in Virginia as Anglican because they never left England for religious reasons.

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Optional: Read more about the Puritans if you'd like to get a deeper understanding

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Puritans: A Definition

The roots of Puritanism are to be found in the beginnings of the English Reformation. The name "Puritans" (they were sometimes called "precisionists") was a term of contempt assigned to the movement by its enemies. Although the epithet first emerged in the 1560s, the movement began in the 1530s, when King Henry VIII repudiated papal authority and transformed the Church of Rome into a state Church of England. To Puritans, the Church of England retained too much of the liturgy and ritual of Roman Catholicism.

Did you know? In keeping with their focus on the home, Puritan migration to the New World usually consisted of entire families, rather than the young, single men who comprised many other early European settlements.

Well into the 16th century, many priests were barely literate and often very poor. Employment by more than one parish was common, so they moved often, preventing them from forming deep roots in their communities. Priests were immune to certain penalties of the civil law, further feeding anticlerical hostility and contributing to their isolation from the spiritual needs of the people.

The Church of England

Through the reigns of the Protestant King Edward VI (1547-1553), who introduced the first vernacular prayer book, and the Catholic Mary I (1553-1558), who sent some dissenting clergymen to their deaths and others into exile, the Puritan movement-whether tolerated or suppressed-continued to grow.

Some Puritans favored a presbyterian form of church organization; others, more radical, began to claim autonomy for individual congregations. Still, others were content to remain within the structure of the national church but set themselves against Catholic and episcopal authority.

As they gained strength, Puritans were portrayed by their enemies as hairsplitters who slavishly followed their Bibles as guides to daily life or hypocrites who cheated the very neighbors they judged inadequate Christians.

Yet the Puritan attack on the established church gained popular strength, especially in East Anglia and among the lawyers and merchants of London. The movement found wide support among these new professional classes, who saw in it a mirror for their growing discontent with economic restraints.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, an uneasy peace prevailed within English religious life, but the struggle over the tone and purpose of the church continued. Many men and women were more and more forced to contend with the dislocations-emotional as well as physical-that accompanied the beginnings of a market economy.

Subsistence farmers were called upon to enter the world of production for profit. Under the rule of primogeniture, younger sons tended to enter the professions (especially the law) with increasing frequency and seek their livelihood in the burgeoning cities. The English countryside was plagued by scavengers, highwaymen and vagabonds-a newly visible class of the poor who strained the ancient charity laws and pressed upon the townsfolk new questions of social responsibility.

Puritans in New England

In the early decades of the 17th century, some groups of worshipers began to separate themselves from the main body of their local parish church where preaching was inadequate and to engage an energetic "lecturer," typically a young man with a fresh Cambridge degree, who was a lively speaker and steeped in reform theology. Some congregations went further, declared themselves separated from the national church, and remade themselves into communities of "visible saints," withdrawn from the English City of Man into a self-proclaimed City of God.

One such faction was a group of separatist believers in the Yorkshire village of Scrooby, who, fearing for their safety, moved to Holland in 1608 and then, in 1620, to the place they called Plymouth in New England. We know them now as the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock.

A decade later, a larger, better-financed group, mostly from East Anglia, migrated to Massachusetts Bay. There, they set up gathered churches on much the same model as the transplanted church at Plymouth (with deacons, preaching elders and, though not right away, a communion restricted to full church members, or "saints").

Differences Between Pilgrims and Puritans

The main difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans is that the Puritans did not consider themselves separatists. They called themselves "nonseparating congregationalists," by which they meant that they had not repudiated the Church of England as a false church. But in practice they acted-from the point of view of Episcopalians and even Presbyterians at home-exactly as the separatists were acting.

By the 1640s, their enterprise at Massachusetts Bay had grown to about 10,000 people. They soon outgrew the bounds of the original settlement and spread into what would become Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Maine, and eventually beyond the limits of New England.

Who Were the Puritans?

The Puritan migration was overwhelmingly a migration of families (unlike other migrations to early America, which were composed largely of young unattached men). The literacy rate was high, and the intensity of devotional life, as recorded in the many surviving diaries, sermon notes, poems and letters, was seldom to be matched in American life.

The Puritans' ecclesiastical order was as intolerant as the one they had fled. Yet, as a loosely confederated collection of gathered churches, Puritanism contained within itself the seed of its own fragmentation. Following hard upon the arrival in New England, dissident groups within the Puritan sect began to proliferate- Quakers, Antinomians, Baptists-fierce believers who carried the essential Puritan idea of the aloneness of each believer with an inscrutable God so far that even the ministry became an obstruction to faith.

Puritanism in American Life

Puritanism gave Americans a sense of history as a progressive drama under the direction of God, in which they played a role akin to, if not prophetically aligned with, that of the Old Testament Jews as a new chosen people.

Perhaps most important, as Max Weber profoundly understood, was the strength of Puritanism as a way of coping with the contradictory requirements of Christian ethics in a world on the verge of modernity. It supplied ethics that somehow balanced charity and self-discipline. It counseled moderation within psychology that saw worldly prosperity as a sign of divine favor. Such ethics were particularly urgent in a New World where opportunity was rich, but the source of moral authority was obscure.

By the beginning of the 18th century, Puritanism had both declined and shown its tenacity. Though "the New England Way" evolved into a relatively minor system of organizing religious experience within the broader American scene, its central themes recur in the related religious communities of Quakers, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and a whole range of evangelical Protestants.

More recently, the word "Puritan" has once again become a pejorative epithet, meaning prudish, constricted and cold-as in H. L. Mencken's famous remark that a Puritan is one who suspects "somewhere someone is having a good time."

Puritanism, however, had a more significant persistence in American life than as the religion of black-frocked caricatures. It survived, perhaps most conspicuously, in the secular form of self-reliance, moral rigor and political localism that became, by the Age of Enlightenment, virtually the definition of Americanism.

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The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement that arose in the late 16th century and held that the Church of England should eliminate ceremonies and practices not rooted in the Bible.

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In chapter 6 a reference is made to Anne Hutchinson. She has become an important women in US history.

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Boston History in a Minute: Anne Hutchinson

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Anne Hutchinson is the highlight of this week's Boston History in a Minute. A bold woman who ended up on the wrong side of Puritan leadership in the seventeenth century, she would leave a legacy of angering Bostonians.

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Colonial Governments Prior to 1750 America

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As the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay spread further into Connecticut, they came into increasing conflict with the Pequots Native Americans. Conflicts arise and war breaks out amongst them. The Pequot Native Americans loose this war

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After reading this article ask yourself the question of. Why were the Puritan people afraid of Vodou? What misconceptions did they have that have led to stereotypes formed today regarding it.

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Vodou is one of the official religions of Haiti. It is also spelled Voodoo or Voudou. Vodou was created by Africans who were brought to Haiti as slaves in the 1600s. The…

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Susanna describes people having to sit in them for hours sometimes as punishment.

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In King Philip's War Native Americans tried to stop the settlers of New England from taking their land. They fought well but lost the war. After it ended, the English settlers felt free to take even more land.

Metacom, called King Philip by the English, was grand sachem (chief) of the Wampanoag people. He and the English did not trust each other. In 1671 the English demanded that the Wampanoag surrender their guns. Metacom then became convinced his people could no longer live side by side with the English. He persuaded the Nipmuc and other Native Americans to help him fight the settlers.

In 1675 three Wampanoag men killed a Native American for helping settlers. Settlers then killed the three men. These events set off the war. It spread over much of New England. Settlers and Native Americans destroyed each other's villages.

In the spring of 1676 many Native Americans ran short of food. The winter had been harsh and the fighting had kept them from attending to their crops. Nevertheless, Metacom kept on fighting. He was killed in August 1676. Some fighting continued after that. However, it was clear that the settlers had won.

King Philip's War was the biggest war in New England during the 1600s. Native Americans attacked more than half of New England's 90 settlements. In addition, about 3,000 Native Americans and 600 English settlers died.

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In King Philip's War Native Americans tried to stop the settlers of New England from taking their land. They fought well but lost the war. After it ended, the English settlers felt free to take even more land. Metacom, called King Philip by the English, was grand sachem (chief) of the Wampanoag people.

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Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1972-26-780

From 1689 until the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 the French and the British fought a series of wars in a struggle for power on the European continent. Several of these wars were fought in North America as well, for the French and English were rivals on that continent also.

The first of these European wars began after William of Orange, the chief enemy of Louis XIV of France, became King William III of England. The war was fought chiefly to check the attempt of Louis XIV to push his boundaries east to the Rhine River.

The American phase of the struggle is called King William's War. Both the French and the British were helped by their American Indian allies. Neither the British nor French colonists were given much help from the mother countries, both of which were fully occupied on the continent of Europe. In North America the French used Indian methods of warfare, making raids along the frontiers of New York and New Hampshire and against the settlements of Maine. The English planned expeditions against Montreal and Quebec. A British fleet commanded by William Phips captured Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia), but Phips's sea expedition against Quebec was defeated by Louis de Frontenac, the French governor. Pierre Iberville , while in command of French ships, took Newfoundland and Hudson's Bay.

The Peace of Ryswick, signed in 1697, restored to their former owners all territories gained in the colonies. Peace was of short duration, however, for five years later Queen Anne's War, fought from 1702 to 1713, broke out as part of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.

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From 1689 until the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 the French and the British fought a series of wars in a struggle for power on the European continent. Several of these wars were fought in North America as well, for the French and English were rivals on that continent also.

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What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials?  (1692) 

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What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials?  (1692) 

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What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac