The Pilgrims: Who Is America Today?

The colonists fled Europe for many reasons. These included being poor, lack of food, and diseases. They believed they could escape the bad things that were happening to them by coming to the new world. One of the major problems was that they wanted religious freedom. When they built their colonies, they could worship under the religions of their choice.

At Massachusetts there was cold climate, thin rocky soil, lumbering,good harbor, shipbuilding, fishing and trade prospered. Lots of people die in the winter.The England's worried about escaping religious persecution.They suffer of hunger, disease, and environmental hazards.They had a self-government and an agreement with Mayflower Compact. The pilgrims saw the indians coming to their territory where they live and where about to kill the natives, but the England's found out that the natives were there to help them how to crop. If the natives did not help them then the pilgrims should've die of starvation. England had a good relationship with Indians until war was later declared in 1636.This allowed these settler make a strong community because of the religious persecution these people received in England, the Pilgrims mostly came to America for

The novel Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick has a long list of things to teach us about the New World. The fact that it’s showed us that the very first pilgrims had no idea what they were in for was crucial. They were hit with the realization that the Natives would be wild and ferocious instead of calm and tame. They’d known they would be introduced to new ways of life, and disease, but they didn’t suspect that it’d be the most destructive part to the goodwill of the newly born colony.

In the novel Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick, the author educates us on how the New World was discovered and created. It all started with a group of roughly 100 men and women who originated from England known as the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were sick and tired of the lack of religious freedom and work/economic opportunities. There was no future for the Pilgrims in England. This was all until the group set sail on the Mayflower in order to find new land. After a rough journey, they came across a piece of land now known as New England. The Pilgrims settled here because it was relatively empty. They believed that in New England they would be able to create a godly city or a place where they wouldn’t be criticized for their religious views.

The Pilgrims voyaged to America around 1602 and they were off to a bad start when it came to colonize the new land. A while after the Pilgrims had landed in America, they decided to make William Bradford the governor of their new government, which he continued on out for the rest of his life. Throughout the time that the Pilgrims were in America, they suffered many deaths that were not expected to occur. Many important people to the government had died due to lack of supplies. The Pilgrims did not have the medicine or the food to provide each other when they came down with sickness and

Adventure, promises of wealth, and an opportunity to a new life were some of the many reasons which attracted settlers to the Americas. However, what the new settlers did not know were the many challenges and tragedies this new life entailed. Despite all, the colonists of Jamestown would encounter the difficulties of starting a new colony in a foreign new land. The life these settlers found was nothing like they expected. Their hopes for wealth and a new beginning were soon replaced with death and misery. The colonies of the Americas can be seen as a failure because European settlers would come to experience the horrors that the “New World” would give them including famine and diseases.

The motives that drove the Pilgrims and Puritans away from anything familiar and the trust they placed in God only proved that they were going to make their life in the new world work, no matter what.

There are many reasons why the English settlers journeyed to the New World. Religious freedoms and reformation was the first reason. The next was the potential for settlers to start a new, prosperous life. The main reason people came over to the New World was for a quick and easy way to gain more wealth.Many crops were grown but

When the first settlers arrived to America they weren't ready for the challenges they were going to come across. Even though they had to start a new life they were brave and didn't let anyone get in the their way. When the pilgrims came across the Atlantic in the Mayflower they didn't have enough food or water for the whole trip. The pilgrims had to learn new things and be brave when they arrived to America. This responsibility of perseverance which is mentioned in two text, William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, helped the early settlers shape America's identity.

In his book, Philbrick charts out the experiences of the Pilgrims as they were on their search for the New World. He begins by highlighting the main motive behind such a dangerous voyage. The Pilgrims simply wanted religious freedom. In order to free themselves from the Catholic Church, they sailed to Leiden, Holland first. Here they enjoyed religious freedom for a little while; however, they soon realized that their children were becoming very Dutch. In order to still have the same religious rights, but also still be legitimately

The history of America has always been pretty straightforward, but the same cannot be said about its identity. Overtime America has had three major time periods, the 1600’s-1700’s, 1700’s-1800’s, and 1900’s-present day. Each time period has dramatically changed the identity of America as we know it. The migration of people has helped create an American identity. During three periods of history significant changes happened that helped frame who Americans are.

When April arrived, the crew of the Mayflower raised its sails and set off for England, offering to take any Pilgrim who wished to return to England. Faced with the choice of the harsh New World, or the religious intolerance of the King, they all stayed.

The Purposes behind coming to America was as diverse as the people living in it. America turned into the Promised Land of mankind, offering individuals a grand belief of a dream of extended opportunities and new hopes which was denied to them in the Old World. Europeans writers wrote an enormous

In one basic respect, the Pilgrims are a logical outcome of the Reformation. This alliance was dangerous, as Separatist were often arrested, imprisoned, even hanged for treason on the orders of King James I of England. When Bradford and his fellow separatist heard King James I was intending to “harry them for the land”, (Kelso, 2005) the entire congregation fled to the Netherlands.

It all started when a crew of one-hundred two people abandoned their homeland in search for freedom. After a long and hazardous journey, the pilgrims finally made it to land. Before landing the heads of the pilgrim families and heads of the non-pilgrim families made a compact to secure the peace between both of them. Today, the compact is known as “The Mayflower Compact”. They took their first step on an unknown vast land hoping to build a greater future, a future with freedom as virtue. Not everything went as the pilgrims thought it would go, more than half the settlers died from a contagious disease that almost swept the new colony. They were unfamiliar with the agriculture, so they could not harvest healthy vegetation. Their food supply was running low. Now, all they had was hope, hope to survive to live a free life and spread the gospel of kingdom of Christ. To survive, they had to make peace treaty