In a society, there always has to be some kind of set of rules. In the 16th century, there was the Act of Toleration, which allowed freedom to worship to Nonconformists. There was also the Dominion of New England but it failed because the governor was unpopular. In the Edict of Nantes, King Henry tried to promote civil unity but only in a nation of Catholics. In the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, it was a simple act; it concentrated on setting a structure and some form of power. The Half-Way Covenant gave people a form of partial church membership. The Mayflower Compact was signed by the pilgrims. It was made to practice Christianity according to their own will. The Maryland Toleration Act was a law mandating religious tolerance for Christians. The Navigations Act restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Places
In the 16th and 17th century, all the places were named and categorized differently. Like when they spoke of Chesapeake, which includes Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The Chesapeake and New England later became one nation.
The middle colonies consisted of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware. The Lower South consisted of South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia. Even though they weren’t names as that back then, they are now in the present day. Before they’re names were like Massachusetts Bay Colony or Jamestown, which was the first English settlement. Jamestown was founded by the renown John Smith.
People (Individuals and Groups)
Throughout the 17th and early 18ht century there have been individuals and groups of people that have made them selves known for what they do. Some people make religion bad and some make it better it depends on how you look at it. Like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, They helped people into religion during the Great Awakening. Roger Williams helped in his any way by making a refuge for religious minorities. But there are a variety of branches of religion like Puritans, Separatists, Huguenots, and Congregationalist. The puritans and the Huguenots are both protestants, the only difference is that the Huguenots are French. The Congregationalists were in colloquial words, hardcore religious people. The Separatist were just evil they criticized the church of England and wanted it destroyed.
The pilgrims brought over religion from England. There were plenty of religious people like Anne Hutchison but there were more soldiers and more upper rank people who helped built Jamestown, which was John Smith. John was saved by Pocahontas she was part pt the powhatan. John Smith was like Sir Walter Raleigh, they were explorers. I think that if Benjamin Franklin would’ve discovered electricity sooner then things would’ve been much smoother.
Events
During the colonial times, there was a lot of war and famine. There was a lot of death and disease, most cause by wars and rebellions. Like the Glorious Revolution in England, they overthrew King James because diplomacy failed. So citizens formed a revolution to get rid of him. People always took action before words were spoken which can be a good and bad thing, which caused all the deaths. There was a massive slave rebellion called Stono’s Uprising, it was a well-organized rebellion led by native Africans. These Africans took a stand for themselves to get what they want. The Virginians tried that too, they organized a “protest” called the “starving time”, where people were forced into starvation to remove the English from Virginia. Around 500 people died in this form of rebellion. Another Virginia rebellion would be Bacon’s Rebellion, led by Nathaniel Bacon. The Virginians took action because they didn’t like the governor’s friendly policies toward murderous Natives. The Virginians took matters into there are hands.
A similar revolt like Bacon’s Rebellion would be the Pequot War. The difference is tribe killed colonist and this led to a series of unfortunate events for them, which caused the near extermination of the Pequot tribe. The Native Americans were involved in plenty of wars during the 16th and 17th century. Like there first war was in King Philip’s War and is sometimes known as the first Indian war. King Philip’s war was also caused because diplomacy failed. The second Indian war was King William’s war, which was between England, France and American Indian allies. This war was caused by significant tension between war France and some English colonies. I guess war is sometimes necessary but not wanted.
But death wasn’t only caused by war. There was also the Salem Witch Trials were men and women (but mostly women) were convicted of being witches and they were either burned alive or hanged. Anybody could’ve been accused of witchcraft and executed the next day. The Great Awakening may have helped the people part of the Grant Migration to stop all the unnecessary deaths in the New World.
Concepts
America has always had problems with race, gender, class, ethnicity, financial status, and religion. Since the beginning, we were put under the impression that demoralising certain groups of people is a good way to get ahead in life. During the Middle Passage, when slaves were brought from Africa to the New World, some people knew that slavery was going to be a problem. Even after the Civil War, the Black Codes were enforced just so blacks can "know" that white people are somehow better. The Americans just didnt demote blacks of their human status, but they did the same to the natives. Owners that were involved in the Headright System were sometimes granted encomiendas. Natives deserved to be treated like those in the indentured servitude. The natives didnt do anything to be treated the way they were.
There were many beliefs going on, sometimes they were about religion and sometimes they were about the economy. like evangelicalism, thats were you actively had to inform people about the death and resurrection of Jesus.Or how about Puritanism, which the English Protestants created in the 16th century. Mercantilism was an economic belief where people theorized that foreign trade was important for the state to prosper.
Money was always a problem back then even though some may deny it. Tariffs were set on things just to get extra money out of it. People always tried to be part of the Join-stock Company just to get a share of the stock. The financial status always defined the state’s status. There was always different types of colonies like a proprietary colony were the rights were just like the parents state. Or maybe a royal colony, where all the governmental functions were handed back to the crown. That’s were Salutary began, and they wanted to live like the ways in Great Britain
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