How Did The Mayflower Voyage

1. The Mayflower has begun its journey from Europe to the New World. The journey has been toilsome so far and is in its tenth week. Provisions are running low, especially firewood. A ship timber cracks almost forcing the vessel to turn back. However the Pilgrim passengers and sailors work together to repair the timber and continue with their voyage. The passengers consisted of a mix of 102 sailors and Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were considered religious fanatics in England and had to relocate to Leiden Holland. In Leiden they develop their plan to create a new pure Pilgrim settlement in the New World.

2. The Pilgrims reach land with tall sand cliffs easily recognizable as Cape Cod. The pilgrims sail south hoping to find somewhere else to set
A New ship by the name of the Fortune arrives at Plymouth carrying a cargo of passengers wishing to live in Plymouth. The settlers quickly begin to use up the Pilgrim's provisions as they struggle to find more food. There is tension between the two groups based around Religion which climaxes on Christmas day, where the Pilgrims punish the crew of the Fortune for having a day of merriment. Squanto tells the plymouth settlers that Massasoit and the Narrangasets have made a plan to kill the Pilgrims and attack Plymouth. A small group of Pilgrims finds out from Hobbamock that Squanto lied and it was a plan to turn the Pilgrims against Massasoit and kill him so that Squanto may assume his role as Sachem. Massasoit is enraged and orders Squanto executed, but Bradford will not have his close friend killed and protects the Interpreter. Soon after, Squanto dies of disease, and Hobbamock assumes his role as
During the 1640s, England was in a civil war and migration to the New World dwindled. Some settlers returned to England to join the effort to overthrow King Charles. When the king was executed in 1649, England became Puritan. England was now on center stage and many in America felt left out of the important events happening. The civil war also had a devastating effect on the economy of the America, where prices dropped and they were left with surpluses that they could not move.

12. The second generation of Pilgrims did not share the same spiritual fervor their parents had. They became more consumed with material rewards than spiritual ones and church membership requirements were relaxed in many colonies. In future years, with growing violence and hardship, the children of the Pilgrims would look back on this as the reason for God's punishment and judgment. This is a consequence of Manifest destiny which resulted in the deaths of many Native Americans.

13. The political and social climate in New England was also changing. Boston quickly became the economic center of the region. In Plymouth, Josiah Winslow, Edward Winslow's son, became the military leader at the age of thirty-three. He graduated from Harvard College and was seen as a distinguished member of the community. He knew the Indians well from his father, although he had a different relationship with the