The Pilgrims: A Brief Overview from Beginning to the End

By History Encounters

History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Pilgrims to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed.

For over two centuries, the Pilgrims’ story was one told around the dinner table every year at Thanksgiving, and the people in that story became something of a myth. Yet the Pilgrims were just as real as you or me, and in 1620, they journeyed across the Atlantic to America, where they came to establish the second British colony in the New World.

The narrative of the Pilgrims has changed somewhat in the last fifty years. Since the 1970s, people have been asking questions about the second narrative, the narrative of the Wampanoag people, the native Americans who sat down opposite the Pilgrims that very first Thanksgiving all those hundreds of years ago. Each of these narratives is as important as the other, and the Pilgrims can’t really be understood without examining them in the context of the Wampanoag people and the direct impact both parties had on one another.

Learning about history will keep you perceptive and make sure to not repeat mistakes that others made in the past. The different stories in this series will show the readers that history should not just be seen from one perspective, but from the different eyes of the groups of people involved. You never know, you might finally understand their choices, their actions and their reactions.

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• The inner workings of major historical turning points in different countries.
• Different perspectives of major events in history
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Ched
• Release date: Feb 25, 2024
• ISBN: 9791223011188

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CONTENTS

Part One: Editor Foreword

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Origins of the Pilgrims

Chapter Three: Leaving Europe

Chapter Four: The Voyage to the New World

Chapter Five: The New World

Chapter Six: Settling in Plymouth

Chapter Seven: The Wampanoag People and the First Thanksgiving 

Chapter Eight: Thanksgiving

Chapter Nine: The Pilgrim Legacy

Chapter Ten: Conclusion

Chapter Eleven: Discussion Question

Chapter Twelve: Quiz Question

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Chapter One

Introduction

Most people are familiar with the term pilgrim, and yet, often, people aren’t quite exactly sure who these people were or what historical relevance they hold. According to plimoth.org, The people we know as Pilgrims have become so surrounded by legend that we are tempted to forget that they were real people. Pilgrims were, in fact, just regular English folk who, against all odds, set sail from England in 1620 on the Mayflower and landed on the shores of America. They then set about establishing their own colony in what would then become the state of Massachusetts. The Plymouth colony that would later be established by the Pilgrims would become the second British colony to be built on American soil.

The Pilgrims fled to the New World from England because of the government’s suppression of their religious freedom. The Pilgrims identified as Calvinist Protestants and worshiped God according to John Calvin’s tenets.

In 1534, King Henry VIII, England's reigning monarch, broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. He chose to establish the Church of England, to which he was the head, not the Catholic Pope. In doing this, King Henry VIII set about changing the world as people knew it, including the lives of the