Bobbie A. Harjo In Plymouth‚ England‚ during September 1620‚ a ship slowly sailed out to sea. This ship was named the Mayflower‚ and it was on a very special trip. The Mayflower’s passengers were headed to the New World‚ America. These people were called the pilgrims‚ and they were leaving England to begin new lives. This was one of the things that they were thankful for‚ and one of the reasons they celebrated the first thanksgiving. The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11‚ 1620
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England. They wanted to purify and simplify the Church. They thought all men were sinners and it was al because of the original sin of the apple from the forbidden tree. These beliefs affected the writing of the time including William Bradford "Of Plymouth Plantation". The puritans believed that the elite would go to heaven. The elite were the ones who did not sin. Therefore‚ whoever did sin would be "smited" by God. William Bradford shows an example of this when he speaks of a sailor "... who would
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White Settlers Did Not Carve America Out of the Untamed Wilderness “America’s Hometown” other wise known as Plymouth‚ was the chosen location in which the puritans chose to settle. They set sail from Plymouth‚ England around 1620 on the Mayflower and decided to take settlement in a abandoned Indian village off the coast Cape cod. When the pilgrims have landed many of them were amazed by how the forest were so easily domesticated with wide paths that‚” the forest could be penetrated even by a large
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up in other colonies. The Pilgrims also pioneered the way to democracy. If the Pilgrims had settled in Virginia‚ where they had originally planned‚ they would have been subject to the authority of the Virginia Company. In their own colony of Plymouth‚ they were beyond any governmental jurisdiction‚ so
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countries established settlements in the wilderness of the New World. During the 1600’s‚ English settlers founded Plymouth and Jamestown along the Eastern Coast of North America. Puritans established Plymouth to escape the Catholic Church of England. Aristocrats established Jamestown in search of profits. Both settlements dealt with unavoidable contact with the natives. Although both Plymouth and Jamestown’s interactions with Native Americans included early encounters‚ diplomatic intermediaries‚ and peace
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Should Thanksgiving be celebrated? The most common argument went something like this: OK‚ it’s true that the Thanksgiving Day mythology is rooted in a fraudulent story -- about the European invaders coming in peace to the "New World‚" eager to cooperate with indigenous people -- which conveniently ignores the reality of European barbarism in the conquest of the continent. But we can reject the culture’s self-congratulatory attempts to rewrite history‚ I have been told‚ and come together on Thanksgiving
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The colony at Jamestown‚ the colonies at Plymouth‚ and the colony at Boston had different nature‚ goals‚ successes and failures. There was a cross of similarities and differences. One thing that remains obvious is each was looking for something that was lacking in their home land. There was a perception and a picture that each group had when they left their homelands. Arrival in the new would prove to be an alternate reality from that which was envisioned. The new reality still provided a challenge
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this‚ many colonies began to develop‚ and of these colonies‚ Massachusetts and Virginia were the most well-known. The early settlements of the Massachusetts and Virginia were both established by similar groups of people at the same time; however‚ their contrasting beginnings as a colony‚ views on religion‚ and means of economic stability created two different politics and economic systems. The settlements of Virginia and Massachusetts were colonies established fairly close together‚ but the paths
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with the Amish share a lot of the same values‚ but most importantly industriousness. In 1620‚ The Puritans began their long and intrepid journey to originally Virginia‚ but their final destination ended up being along the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts(The Puritans in New England: A Spiritual Journey). They ventured for the Americas to fulfill their wish of returning to a more simple religion. To make the matter worse‚ before a small advance group left Europe many were persecuted because they
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harvest. The pilgrims and the Native Americans shared much that first Thanksgiving Day‚ including food‚ laughter‚ friendship‚ and pride. I think that it is very interesting to note that only 40 years after the first Thanksgiving in Plimouth‚ Massachusetts‚ the first permanent settlement of Europeans on Staten Island began. The year was 1661‚ and I think these settlers probably celebrated a
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