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Anna Scott

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480 total appearances

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American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so, you know, things went backwards and forwards for quite a period. And there was a lot of jeopardy if you were on the wrong side at that time. So people were travelling across to Europe, for their own safety when they felt that they perhaps were under threat. And then as the Protestants returned, they would travel back. And so this pendulum was swinging throughout this period.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so, you know, things went backwards and forwards for quite a period. And there was a lot of jeopardy if you were on the wrong side at that time. So people were travelling across to Europe, for their own safety when they felt that they perhaps were under threat. And then as the Protestants returned, they would travel back. And so this pendulum was swinging throughout this period.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so, you know, things went backwards and forwards for quite a period. And there was a lot of jeopardy if you were on the wrong side at that time. So people were travelling across to Europe, for their own safety when they felt that they perhaps were under threat. And then as the Protestants returned, they would travel back. And so this pendulum was swinging throughout this period.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And when James came to the throne after Elizabeth, some of the Puritans, those leading church people who would describe themselves as wanting to reform the church, really thought that he would come along, come down from Scotland, and help give them what they needed to make the church change.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And when James came to the throne after Elizabeth, some of the Puritans, those leading church people who would describe themselves as wanting to reform the church, really thought that he would come along, come down from Scotland, and help give them what they needed to make the church change.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And when James came to the throne after Elizabeth, some of the Puritans, those leading church people who would describe themselves as wanting to reform the church, really thought that he would come along, come down from Scotland, and help give them what they needed to make the church change.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so he came to the throne in 1603, but it became clear after a conference that they had the following years that he wasn't going to support them in that way. And he actually said about some of these protesting Puritans that he would, the quote was, he would harry them out as a land or else do worse if they wouldn't conform to what he wanted. So that really set it out for them.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so he came to the throne in 1603, but it became clear after a conference that they had the following years that he wasn't going to support them in that way. And he actually said about some of these protesting Puritans that he would, the quote was, he would harry them out as a land or else do worse if they wouldn't conform to what he wanted. So that really set it out for them.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so he came to the throne in 1603, but it became clear after a conference that they had the following years that he wasn't going to support them in that way. And he actually said about some of these protesting Puritans that he would, the quote was, he would harry them out as a land or else do worse if they wouldn't conform to what he wanted. So that really set it out for them.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

He wasn't going to be as tolerant of their views as they had hoped that he would be.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

He wasn't going to be as tolerant of their views as they had hoped that he would be.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

He wasn't going to be as tolerant of their views as they had hoped that he would be.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

Yes, absolutely, because I think there wasn't the type of scientific reasoning for things at that time. God was your reference point for explaining all of these things that were happening in the world. And although we tend to think, yes, there's a really strong religious reason for all of these things, there were economic reasons as well.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

Yes, absolutely, because I think there wasn't the type of scientific reasoning for things at that time. God was your reference point for explaining all of these things that were happening in the world. And although we tend to think, yes, there's a really strong religious reason for all of these things, there were economic reasons as well.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

Yes, absolutely, because I think there wasn't the type of scientific reasoning for things at that time. God was your reference point for explaining all of these things that were happening in the world. And although we tend to think, yes, there's a really strong religious reason for all of these things, there were economic reasons as well.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

But the economic reasons are often related to God or to religion. So there was plague around at that time. There had been a series of poor harvests. There was some enclosure of land going on so that rurally people that had owned land or had access to land, that was lost to them.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

But the economic reasons are often related to God or to religion. So there was plague around at that time. There had been a series of poor harvests. There was some enclosure of land going on so that rurally people that had owned land or had access to land, that was lost to them.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

But the economic reasons are often related to God or to religion. So there was plague around at that time. There had been a series of poor harvests. There was some enclosure of land going on so that rurally people that had owned land or had access to land, that was lost to them.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so it was affecting people's jobs and consequently affecting their prospects, affecting their wealth or their ability to earn money. And some of those types of things were at the time blamed on retribution from God or needing to change things to try and respond to why things were going badly. And that's how people would explain things to themselves.

American History Hit
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?

And so it was affecting people's jobs and consequently affecting their prospects, affecting their wealth or their ability to earn money. And some of those types of things were at the time blamed on retribution from God or needing to change things to try and respond to why things were going badly. And that's how people would explain things to themselves.