USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The colonists spent the first winter living onboard the Mayflower. Only 53 passengers and half the crew survived. Women were particularly hard hit; of the 19 women who had boarded the Mayflower, only five survived the cold New England winter, confined to the ship where disease and cold were rampant.

Detailed explanation-2: -The First Winter at Plimouth Still the extreme cold, lack of food, and illness led to the death of half the group, both passengers and crewmen. There were four deaths (and one birth-Peregrine White) during the month they spent at the tip of Cape Cod.

Detailed explanation-3: -After more than two months (66 days) at sea, the Pilgrims finally arrived at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620. A few weeks later, they sailed up the coast to Plymouth and started to build their town where a group of Wampanoag People had lived before (a sickness had killed most of them).

Detailed explanation-4: -The entire crew stayed with Mayflower in Plymouth through the winter of 1620–1621, and about half of them died during that time.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.