Challenges of the Pilgrims

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What would you do if you were going on a journey to a new world during winter, and you didn’t know how to get food or shelter? In 1921 a group of 132 people set off on a voyage on the Mayflower to find a better life and religious freedom. Before they could start their better life they had to find food and make shelter. The pilgrims stayed on their boat for most of the winter to get away from the snow, sleet, and high winds. When the pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians became friends and made a peace treaty,later Squanto helped them find food and shelter.
When the pilgrims first got to the new land the Wampanoags were very curious of the pilgrim’s large boat. The Wampanoag Indians waited awhile before they spoke to them. They made an agreement with the Wampanoag. This agreement said that the pilgrims and the Wampanoag needed to have mutual peace, friendship, and be their military ally. A military alliance is if the Wampanoag got into a war with someone the pilgrims would help fight and same with the pilgrims.
The first months on the new land were very hard for the pilgrims, about half of the pilgrims who came there passed away during this time. Because they came during the winter, many of the pilgrims died of pneumonia, scurvy, and malnutrition. Also, 11 out of the 31 children that landed in the new world died , but 2 boys were born on the Mayflower. Oceanus Hopkins and Pergine White were the 2 children delivered on the Mayflower. Oceanus Hopkins lived to be 2 years old and Pergine White lived to be 83 years old. Luckily things changed when Squanto arrived. He helped them, so that they wouldn’t die and so that they could get out of the cold winter.
There were lots of other problems the pilgrims encountered besides sick...

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