USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Wampanoag people, the “People of the First Light, ” are responsible for saving the Pilgrims from starvation and death during the harsh winter of 1620–21.

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. From its beginning, the colony struggled to maintain a food supply.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Pilgrim settlers would rotate crews as they fished and unloaded their catches. Until harvest time, they could better live on fish, clams, nuts, and if they were good shots, an occasional dear. They prayerfully waited for their crops to produce, living only on a few grains of corn for four or five days at a time*.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Samoset (also Somerset, c. 1590 – c. 1653) was an Abenaki sagamore and the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. He startled the colonists on March 16, 1621, by walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting them in English, saying “Welcome, Englishmen."