Question

**please help** Read the quotes in part B again, and then write a short statement of about 100 words explaining the following: what each quote means, why the speaker said it, and why it is important. QUOTES John Smith: You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers. John Winthrop: We shall be as a city upon a hill; the eyes of all people are upon us. William Penn: No people can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyments of civil liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Conscience as to their Religious Profession and Worship.

Answer 1

ohn Smith’s quote means that everyone who was healthy had to participate in work. He said it because the Jamestown colonists were not farmers, and they started running out of food. Their leader, John Smith, imposed strict rules on the colonists to help them survive.

The quote from Winthrop means the Puritans should be an example for the rest of the world. Winthrop made this statement to remind people they had high standards to uphold.

Penn’s quote means that people can’t be truly happy without religious freedom. He wrote this statement in the Charter of Privileges because he wanted to be sure that his colony was guaranteed religious freedom and the participation of people in their own government.

Answer 2

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ohn Smith’s quote means that everyone who was healthy had to participate in work. He said it because the Jamestown colonists were not farmers, and they started running out of food. Their leader, John Smith, imposed strict rules on the colonists to help them survive.

The quote from Winthrop means the Puritans should be an example for the rest of the world. Winthrop made this statement to remind people they had high standards to uphold.

Penn’s quote means that people can’t be truly happy without religious freedom. He wrote this statement in the Charter of Privileges because he wanted to be sure that his colony was guaranteed religious freedom and the participation of people in their own government.