Utopian Promise

Trevor Olson

English III

Ms. Fordahl

4/09/2014

Utopian Promise

                The time period for the Utopian era is around the 1600’s. The world is being formed by settlers all over the world. The white people settled in America in around the 1600’s after Lewis and Clark founded the Americas. The New World is where the white settlers came and settled to make homeland in the Americas. They had to become friends with the natives that already lived there. In the video Utopian Promise, they described what it was like for the settlers and the difference between Quakers and Puritans. The difference between the Quakers and Puritans are their religion and that the Quakers are about peace and the Puritans didn’t tolerate anything.

                In the story “The General History of Virginia” it talks about how John Smith, a white European settler came to the Americas to settle and live on the land. When Smith arrived at the Americas there were already Native Americans that lived there. The Native Americans didn’t approve of the white people settling in the Americas. They decided on a compromise which made the Native American teach them to hunt and the white people teach them to plant corn and stuff.

                In the story “Of Plymouth Plantation” it talks about how again the white settlers come to settle in the Americas, and the Natives do not want them there. It talks about the Wampanoag Native Americans and how they live. The story also talks about how the settlers came in during the winter, and how bad of a time it was to come. A lot of the men starved to death because they couldn’t find or get food.

                In the story “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” it talks about how much humans are scared to be condemned to hell. The story also talks about how there was a preacher that just said everyone was going to hell. It also said that God held you in the palm of his hand and that at any moment he could let them go into hell.

                If anyone had different beliefs just like the Salem Witch Trial you would be treated the same in the 1600’s. That is how the trials created the history and setting for the older times. I don’t know much about the Salem witch trials but I know that if you had a different belief then you were considered to be evil and killed. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. I think that the story “The Crucible” is going to be good because you get to see how people were treated cruelly in the early ages. I thought that the stories we read and the video we watched were not too bad, they could have been better.