Plymouth, Massachusetts

Hi. I’m Yume. I know everyone is looking forward to Thanksgiving Holiday. But today I’m going to talk about Unthanksgiving Day. Have you ever heard of it? First of all, I’ll talk about what is the Unthanksgiving Day. To put it simply, Unthanksgiving Day is the sunrise ceremony of indigenous people on the same day of Thanksgiving Day. This event is held in the Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. The purposes of this event is to show the respect to American Indians and promote their rights. Unthanksgiving Day is originated from one of the American Indian Movements, the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1960s. they occupied the island three times in 1960s and the most remarkable one lasted for 19 months. It means that the Alcatraz Island…

He was able to help Plymouth grow and he himself was able to evolve as person. By acting as a constable and surveyor he achieved the ability to stay oriented on a task and complete it to the best of his ability. He obviously was able to pass these traits and even the traits that were passed on to him to his children, Andrew, James, William, Susanna, Nathaniel, and John. John In the article that my dad compiled, it mentions how Thomas Clarke leaves the deed to his home to his children and his…

In “A History of Plymouth Plantation”, William Bradford distinguishes three significant Indians whose appearances assisted guidance for the Pilgrims through the New World. Several years later, Cyrus Dallin produced a sculpture in 1921 that signified Massasoit, one of those three Indians, as the Signal of Peace. Despite the fact that the time periods between these two documents are almost two hundred years apart, both documents displayed Massasoit as a peaceful figure that unified the Pilgrims…

New World. 102 passengers were aboard the ship. These passengers were Puritans, also known as, the Pilgrims. The Puritans were people who split from the Church of England. Everyone aboard was hoping for new work, freedom from religious persecution, and a better life. The voyage to the New World took 66 days. The composition of the Mayflower Compact began when the Pilgrims landed in Cape Cod, instead of Virginia. Because of this, they were outside of their charter from the Virginia Company. To…

A Perilous Accident In the year 1620 John Howland and other Englishmen boarded the Mayflower and set sail for the New World so that they could worship their god they way that they wanted. The Englishmen new that the peregrination (not sure if I used this right) to America would be a long and perilous journey but they didn't wimp out. About three days after they had set sail an enormous storm came upon the Mayflower in a terrible fury. The wind relentlessly rocked and tossed…

In Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower, he gives the reader insight on the early years of the Plymouth Colony and the lives of the Native Americans and the Pilgrims. Before the Pilgrims met the Native Americans, the Pilgrims were starting to doubt their destiny. When the two groups met, they quickly realized that their relationship with one another could lead to something good to remember for years to come. Unfortunately in 1675, their relations will turn for the worst due to the Pilgrims forcing…

In 1588, off the coast of Grave-lines, France, Spain’s so-called “insuperable Armada” was defeated by the English soldiers under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake. Their main aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth1 of England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England. After fighting for almost eight hours, a change in wind direction forced the Spanish to retreat from the battle and sailed toward the North Sea. The Spanish Armada had hoped to win the…

I am a crew member with Sir Francis Drake. I am here because I was with him when he killed the Spanish Armada. I was with him from June to September, 1588. We were at the English Channel. He Killed them because they were going around killing random people. If he did not kill them then we would be dead because they would have gotten to us and killed our tribe. Sir Francis Drake did not just kill the Spanish, he was ordered to. When he was ordered to kill them he went out to find them to stop…

Sir Francis Drake is guilty of voluntary manslaughter. This comes in play with the Spanish Armada. Voluntary manslaughter is where you kill someone and plan doing it. Drake planned on killing the Spanish Armada because Queen Elizabeth told him they were preparing to kill her. The queen never said to kill them, she told Drake to stop them. She never threatened or forced him to do this act. The only orders the queen had were to return in six months. Drake sailed to England with his crew. One…

The Mayflower Compact: A Young Person’s Perspective- Historical, Present-day Societies, and Personal. Historical: The signers of the Mayflower Compact had a variety of motivations in the creation of their founding document. The pilgrims that had come seeking a new home in the new world found themselves outside of the jurisdiction of the Virginia charter, and there were mutterings of mutiny among the voyagers. One of the primary motivations in the writing of the compact was to establish the rule…