SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MAYFLOWER SETTLEMENT
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“To them, a thanksgiving was a religious holiday in which they would go to church and thank God for a specific event, such as the winning of a battle.”
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“Gradually the custom prevailed in New England of annually celebrating thanksgiving after the harvest.”
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“The pilgrims had intended to go to the Hudson River region in New York State, which would have been considered “Northern Virginia, “ but they landed in Cape Cod instead.”
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“The original feast in 1621 occurred sometime between September 21 and November 11. Unlike our modern holiday, it was three days long.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -They held many of the same Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but, unlike most other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations should separate from the English state church, which led to them being labeled Separatists (the word “Pilgrims” was not used to refer to them until several centuries later).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pilgrims strongly believed that the Church of England, and the Catholic Church, had strayed beyond Christ’s teachings, and established religious rituals, and church hierarchies, that went against the teachings of the Bible.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Puritans. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough.
Detailed explanation-4: -Purists, by definition, are extremists, and it’s no accident that many in England dubbed those who wanted to reform the Church of England “Puritans, ” which “was always a derisive term, ” Donegan explains. “The Mayflower pilgrims were the most extreme kind of reformers.