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Dec 18, 2009 · Plymouth Colony was a British colony in Massachusetts settled by travelers arriving on the Mayflower in the 17th century. It was the first colonial settlement in New England and was the site of...
Plymouth provided good anchorage and an excellent harbor. Cold climate and thin, rocky soil limited farm size. New Englanders turned to lumbering, shipbuilding, fishing and trade.
Oct 26, 2020 · The Plymouth Colony (1620-1691) was the first English settlement in the region of modern-day New England in the United States, settled by the religious Separatists known as the “pilgrims” who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower in 1620, fleeing religious persecution, to establish a settlement where they could worship freely in the ...
- Joshua J. Mark
- The Plymouth Colony is the first successful English settlement established in New England in 1620. It survived only through the help of Native Amer...
- The Plymouth Colony lasted from 1620-1691 after which it was absorbed by the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- The Plymouth Colony is famous for many things but, mainly, the so-called First Thanksgiving in the New World.
- The Plymouth Colony honored their treaty with the Native Americans of the Wampanoag Confederacy until after the deaths of the initial leaders of bo...
Dec 17, 2020 · The Pilgrims thanked their God for the downfall of a “proud and insulting” enemy. The victors sold some of the captured Pequots into slavery. Religious and political freedom existed for the...
Aug 5, 2019 · In 1802, speaking at Plymouth, the future president John Quincy Adams underscored the lasting importance of the agreement signed aboard the Mayflower more than 180 years earlier, calling it ...
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The Plymouth colony is significant for a number of reasons. For one thing, it provided America with its first ever example of self-government in the form of the Mayflower Compact.
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Nov 17, 2020 · While perhaps best known as the source of the tradition of Thanksgiving, the Plymouth Colony introduced the concept of self-government into America and serves as the source of important clues for what would become the foundation of American government.
