World History EncyclopediaThe United States holiday of Thanksgiving is generally understood to be inspired by the harvest feast celebrated by the citizens of Plymouth Colony (later known as pilgrims) and the Native Americans of the Wampanoag Confederacy in the fall of 1621. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1646/thanksgiving-day-a-brief-history/ #History #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #Mourt'sRelation #PlymouthColony
The Puritans were English Protestant Christians, primarily active in the 16th-18th centuries CE, who claimed the Anglican Church had not distanced itself sufficiently from Catholicism and sought to 'purify' it of Catholic practices. https://www.worldhistory.org/Puritans/ #History #ElizabethIofEngland #EnglishReformation #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas
Christopher Jones (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/Christopher_Jones,_Captain_of_the_Mayflower/ #History #ChristopherJones,CaptainoftheMayflower #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #Mayflower
The Mayflower is the name of the cargo ship that brought the Puritan separatists (known as pilgrims) to North America in 1620 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Mayflower/ #History #ChristopherJones,CaptainoftheMayflower #EdwardWinslow #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas
The most important cash crop in Colonial America was tobacco, first cultivated by the English at their Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1610 CE by the merchant John Rolfe (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1681/tobacco--colonial-american-economy/ #History #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #JamestownColonyofVirginia #JohnRolfe
Pre-Colonial North America (also known as Pre-Columbian, Prehistoric, and Precontact) is the period between the migration of the Paleo-Indians to the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago and contact between indigenous tribes and European colonists in the 16th century CE which eradicated the Native American culture, replacing it with what became Canada and the United States of America. https://www.worldhistory.org/Pre-Colonial_North_America/ #History #Cahokia #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #MississippianCulture
The Plymouth Colony (1620-1691 CE) was the first English settlement in the region of modern-day New England in the United States, settled by the religious separatists known as the “pilgrims” who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower in 1620 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Plymouth_Colony/ #History #ChristopherJones,CaptainoftheMayflower #EdwardWinslow #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas
