cider, potatoes, or butter. There was no domestic cattle for dairy products, and the newly-discovered potato was still considered by many Europeans to be poisonous. But the feast did include fish,
the Dutch way of life,thinking it ungodly.Seeking a better life,the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America.Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists,but were hired to protect the company's interests.Only about one-...
The arrival of thePuritansand the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s, however, increased the competition for beaver pelts and cut into the Pilgrims’ bottom line. Not until 1648 did the Pilgrims pay off their debt. The Plymouth Colony ultimately faced a similar fate to...
Why were the founders of the Plymouth Colony called Pilgrims? What reason did Puritans have for establishing Plymouth Colony? Why did the Pilgrims come to America? Why did Amerigo Vespucci go on his voyages? Why didn't John White search for the lost colony in Croatoan?
Why did the Puritans cross the Atlantic Ocean? Why did John White return to England? Why did Peter Minuit start the colony of Delaware? Why did Chief Powhatan have Captain John Smith kidnapped? Why did the Pilgrims settle in Plymouth?
In more recent times, anti-Semitic persecution in Hitler’sGermanyhas driven people from their homes to seek refuge inAmerica. However, not all religious sects have received the tolerance and understanding for which they came. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony showed as little tolerance...
If this is the course the West eventually takes - and who's to say if it is forsure; Americans have been complaining that declining morals were going to tear their country apart since the time of the Puritans, but the nation still seems to be going pretty strong - that raises the quest...
Roman philosophy. The Reformers and Puritans were not as consistently Biblical in their thinking about Biblical Law as Rushdoony was centuries later. As someone ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, which is confessionally tied to the Westminster Standards, Bahnsen was unable to break free ...
that’s changed. But I think Wisconsin still leads America in alcohol consumption. Believe me, growing up in Madison in the 1960s and early 1970s makes ever other place and era in America seem like a bunch of insufferable Puritans. There are towns around me (near Boston) that ban alcohol...
As well as disliking the boisterous behavior that resulted from Christmas celebrations, the Puritans were also against the holiday because of its non-Christian roots—Roman Catholics had essentially hijacked the pagan winter festivities of Saturnalia—and its lack of evidence in the Bible. ...