LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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animal attack and weather
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Indian attack and weather
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suicide and weather
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disease, weather and starvation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many of the colonists fell ill. They were probably suffering from scurvy and pneumonia caused by a lack of shelter in the cold, wet weather. Although the Pilgrims were not starving, their sea-diet was very high in salt, which weakened their bodies on the long journey and during that first winter.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The starving time” was the winter of 1609-1610, when food shortages, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three colonists at James Fort.
Detailed explanation-3: -More than half the settlers fell ill and died that first winter, victims of an epidemic of disease that swept the new colony. Soon after they moved ashore, the Pilgrims were introduced to a Native American man named Tisquantum, or Squanto, who would become a member of the colony.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: They were infected with scurvy and other diseases from the voyage. Also, the winter was very cold and they did not have houses yet in Plymouth.