The Story About Thanksgiving and Pilgrims

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The story about Pilgrims as the first permanent settlers has been taught in schools for generations. It’s just a myth of many myths that historians create for variety of reasons. Pilgrims were not the first but one of many settlers. Even though they were more successful than previous settlers, like Jamestown in 1607, still they were a poor, uneducated, small, religious community, which should not be described as founders of the United States of America. That type of community could not possibly set up a foundation for a well organized, successful, educated, and fast - progressing society. The Puritans, who settled in New England ten years later, were creators of the stable system, based on their strong religious beliefs and prototype of Capitalist and Individualist society, which the United States based on, today. The Puritans settlement should be the main focus in the history books as the true beginning of the United States of America. One of the main reasons the Pilgrims story is a myth is that they did not come to America for religious freedom. They already had it in Holland, where they escaped from persecution in England. Their children were start becoming too Dutch like, growing up in Holland. That did not coincide with their idea to keep the community and religious beliefs the same for generations. They came to North America with the idea to set up a separate isolated religious community. They were more successful compared to previous non - native settlements because of circumstances of the time period. In 1600s the numerous diseases like small pox wiped out ninety percent of the native population. Whole villages and towns were left behind by the very few who lived. Those events created unusual opportunity for English to successfully settle in the prime place with beautiful cleared fields set up by Native Americans and a lot of goods that they
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