Utopian Visions
Words: 603 Pages: 2 6761An utopia is a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions. Englishmen who settled in Virginia and Massachusetts envisioned different utopias. Englishmen who settled in Virginia wished for economic utopia while Puritans who settled in Massachusetts wished for a religious utopia. Bacon's Rebellion and the Salem Witch Trials reflect different tensions in colonial societies and challenged the utopian visions of early colonial Virginia and Massachusetts. In 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company a charter […]