![]() Published in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of the founding of Plymouth Colony, the book centers on the concept of liberty: how the colonists pursued it and exercised it, even as they differed in their understanding of what it entailed. ![]() Turner enters into this much-contested territory with his latest book, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty. Already this year, they have been enlisted as part of the pushback against the New York Times’s much-debated 1619 Project, with the National Association of Scholars launching the 1620 Project to invoke “the year in which the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower Compact was signed.” Of course, with Thanksgiving only a few weeks away, op-eds concerning the good, the bad, and the ugly side of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America will be shared all across social media. Television programs, from WGN’s Salem to Sky One’s Jamestown, feature Pilgrims, Puritans, and other sources of early American drama. Wildly historically inaccurate (and often risqué) Pilgrim costumes usually crop up at Halloween parties. We hear them referenced in political speeches by both Republicans and Democrats and see them depicted in artwork in museums across the country. This bundle has doubled in size and now includes over 20 ready-to-use Pilgrim worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about the Pilgrims who came to America to avoid religious rules imposed by England.Pilgrims have become a staple of American life and culture. The drink that the Puritans brought with them on the Mayflower was beer. The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.The first Thanksgiving feast was held in the presence of around ninety Wampanoag Indians and the Wampanoag chief, Massasoit, was also invited. The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the year 1621, in Massachusetts.The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to prepare a thanksgiving feast. By the fall of 1621, only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived.The Wampanoag Indians were the people who taught the Pilgrims how to get the land ready for planting.On December 11, 1620, the first Pilgrims (or Puritans, as they were first known) landed at Plymouth Rock.They sailed on a ship named the Mayflower. The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to reach North America.In 1620, the Pilgrims moved back to England and prepared to leave for the New World. They lived in Holland until 1620, when they became dissatisfied with their situation and the effects that living in Holland was having on their children.The Pilgrims decided to move to Holland where religious freedom was practiced, and where they would be allowed to worship God as they saw fit.The pilgrims had asked the King to allow them to form their own church. ![]() ![]() They followed the teachings of John Calvin on how to worship God.
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