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The Pilgrims: Chapter Summary Of Chapters

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Herein lies the summary of Chapters 1-3 as written and perceived by the students. Chapter 1: They Knew They were Pilgrims. The Mayflower sailed for 65 days at sea. The writer of the book focuses mainly on the passengers of the ship, specifically William Bradford and the past of the Protestants and Separatists from the Church of England. Focusing mostly on William Bradford for the first few pages, the chapter focuses on how the Protestants became a branch of the Separatists and why. Then it discusses the struggle the Protestants had with finding people who could make the necessary purchases and arrangements for them to leave England, without getting robbed or turned in as Separatists because Bradford had printed a religious tract against the …show more content…

The Pilgrims made an agreement with the Virginia Company to work every day but Sunday but the company also sent handpicked people who weren't Pilgrims because there were only a handful of Pilgrims who wanted to actually leave immediately. The other Separatists were all for the idea of being part of the New World but few of them actually wanted to go and work in the wilderness. They were called Strangers by the Pilgrims but learned to work together to try to make a colony. William Bradford was the head of this company, as was William Brewster. The Pilgrims were known better as Puritans and Separatists. They were the radicals of their time, wanting to worship how they wished and when they wished without being persecuted. In that day, the church was very much a part of every day life and controlled everyone with false teachings. The Separatists disagreed and did so vehemently. They were badly treated in their own country that they left England and headed to the Netherlands. Their children were becoming good little Netherlanders and losing the British identity that their parents lived

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Being the first two well-known places in which the English would set out to colonize in 1607 and 1620, Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts hold very separate set of beliefs, standards, and outlooks on life then and the future to come. While paving the way for things such as slavery, taxes, ownership of land, inclusion of women, tobacco and government assemblies, John Smith and the people of Jamestown became a classical foundation for new life and economic growth for the new world that is, the United States. On the other hand, William Bradford and his people began to realize the intentions of the Church of England were unholy and had strayed away from God’s teachings from the Bible. With this in mind, the Pilgrims set on a voyage to the new world to seek religious freedom. As we know it, the Pilgrims sought for peace and a new way of living that was fair, just and free from religious corruptions.

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As the Pilgrims arrived, the Pilgrims did not own the land. So Bradford and the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower compact, “a document that claimed ownership of the area... the agreement also set out to guarantee security against dissension (discord or quarreling) with the rest of the passengers... The agreement also provided for a government as well as a new religious society” (Saari and Carnagie 15-16). The Mayflower Compact set the rules for the oncoming people going onto Plymouth.

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On one hand, both colonies were established in the early to mid 1600’s, which goes to show that their resources and technology were very similar if not the same. The primary purpose behind the voyages were different, as one colony had an economic mindset and the other sought religious freedom, however both of these were underlying motives in each voyage, for the Jamestown colonists desired to spread Christianity and the Plymouth settlers chose North America for its promise of economic opportunities. Both colonies faced the inevitable epidemics, harsh winters, and scarce food. However, the difference that made a profound effect in the difficulties both colonies faced during their initial years was each of their relationships with the Native people of the area they colonized. The Pilgrims, on one hand, established peaceful relations (with the help of Squanto) and focused on growing crops and building a stable settlement as opposed to worrying about an attack, which the Jamestown settlers experienced.

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