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Death and sharing
The Pilgrims arrived in the New World during the winter, making it very difficult for them to find food and build shelter.
Already weakened by their two-month voyage, most of the passengers failed to survive the first few months in their new home.
Fortunately, native people called Wampanoag, or "eastern peoples," already lived in the Massachusetts Bay area. They shared their knowledge of local crops and navigation with the "coat-men," as they called the English, and helped the colonists survive. -
Sickness
The Europeans brought diseases which led to sickness in both cultures. This led to fighting. "Many villages were almost wiped out. Patuxet was one of these. Maybe the sickness still lingers there, for some report that the coat-men are half the number that they were and that they are beginning to ache for food. " -
First Colony
The Pilgrims establish their first colony at Patuxet, which was called Plimoth by English explorers, because the land had already been cleared but uninhabited -
Mayflower returns
The mayflower returns with less than half the number they left with! -
Harmony Vs. Conquest
Some differences between the european settlers and the native americans were that the Indians had harmony with nature while the Europeans just really wanted to make money off of the land. -
The first Thanksgiving!
Our national holiday really stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest! The European settlers had a part in this as well as the Native American Indians. The Indians taught all they knew to the settlers. This was a time of cooperation between the two. -
Indian Massacre of 1622
The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony of virginia. Captain John Smith was an eyewitness and said that the Indians attacked them, which caused a huge violent massacre.
