The Mayflower Compact

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According to Paul Goebbels, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” This is the main reason why the so called “truth” is hard to believe and understand. In like manner, history will forever be difficult to believe because there is always three sides to a story. There has been a variety of myths passed down from generation to generation, For instance, throughout schools across America, students’ learn about Christopher Columbus, but he is given credit for something he did not accomplish. On the other hand, it would be selfish to give all the credit to a specific group of people or even a person because there is so much detail, therefore, it should be elaborated in the way it occurred. …show more content…

This violent storm blew their ship “the Mayflower” off course so they searched the coast of Cape Cod Bay for six full weeks because of the season change. There were only thirty-five Pilgrims out of one-hundred and two settlers on the Mayflower, and the others were ordinary travelers searching for fortunes. The other English Separatists on board wanted to join the established English settlement in Virginia. However, “To avoid rebellion the Pilgrim leaders made a remarkable concession to the other colonists.” They created the Mayflower Compact, which is known as the “forerunner to our Constitution”, and this is the only reason the Pilgrims should be praised. In addition, “According to some historians, Squanto, a Wampanoag from the village of Patuxet, Massachusetts, had provided Ferdinando Gorges, a leader of the Plymouth Company in England, with a detailed description of the area.” More importantly, John Smith an explorer from the sixteenth-century studied the land and named it New England in 1614. He also generously wanted to help the Pilgrims by being a guide, but they denied his offer. Instead the Pilgrims used his guidebook to assist them, which makes it seem like they wanted to travel to New England on purpose and not by mistake. Furthermore, the Pilgrims explored through Provincetown, hoping to find their new home, and chose Plymouth because it had a lot of open space, fresh water, and it was useful since it was on the coast. They finally found land that pleased them and arranged settlement. On the second day the Pilgrims ran into Indians who were full of hospitality and instruction about growing crops, and because of them were able to have their first

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