The New World: How The Pilgrim Fathers Colonised America | Journey Into Unknown | Real History 

We can also credit the Puritans for their belief in teaching boys AND girls to read. The practice of only educating boys was still prevalent in 1900 in England when my grandmother was a young girl. The Puritans expected everyone in their church to read the bible of their time. Teaching girls to read was quite a step forward and spread through other colonies over time.

I love how people only watch shows to pick apart the history. My ancestors were on the Mayflower and I am proud of the brave people who had enough bravery to make the voyage. God bless America 🇺🇸

Thank you William Bradford for all your efforts . RIP

At least 8 of my mother's ancestors were on the Mayflower. One of the reasons for their making landfall was the need for water. That first winter half of them died from various illnesses that probably were new to them. They brought illness from Europe and appear to have been impacted by those found in America. The abandoned native village they first inhabited had been abandoned due a plague in the village.

If you ever get to the area around Oxford, go to Old Jordan to see the Mayflower Barn. The timbers match the description of the beams from the Mayflower, including the repair on the beam mentioned here. You can also see the Meeting House used by the Quakers and see the graves of many of William Penn’s family. That is part of one of the Girl Scouts’ three Old World New Dreams routes in England. When ships were no longer seaworthy, they were often sold to build barns.

The Pilgrim Fathers' trip symbolizes religious freedom and discovery. Their daring crossing of the Atlantic and founding of Plymouth Colony changed American history. This story highlights the struggles and tenacity that shaped a new planet. 🇺🇸🗽🌎

Fortunately yet ever so brief that is. The fairy tale falls apart when you start dissecting the story from myth, lies and misinformation! ❤️👏🧐🧑‍🎨♾️

William Bradford was my great grandfather & I’m so proud of his vision & what he established in America’s earliest days.

My mother's family came in 1635 on the Increase. Yes God bless them for coming and God bless America.

One valuable piece of the puzzle they are missing is the fact that the Mayflower leaders held the seasons by the stars calculations. They did not just look around and hope they got planting right and were ignorant of this fact. They held the alignment of the seasons that some Indians held and that was one piece of the respected puzzle that quickly bonded them. As for the Indians, they were at war with each other for hundreds of years and were hunting each others tribes to kill or make slaves. This is what some tribes felt when they first saw the white man as they were cautious in dealing with them.

Boston born we lived in-between Plymouth and Boston on the coast, I've always been keenly aware of the native before us, almost every street name was Indian, many towns names have Indian names, there everywhere.

Great documentary.

My ancestor, Moses Fletcher was aboard the Mayflower and one of the signatories of the Mayflower Compact. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was related to my grandpa, Albert Washington Fletcher on my maternal side. I never knew about this until the mid 70s, around 11/12 years old, when dusting a bookshelf at my Mom's and a book fell with a piece of paper falling out. I looked at it and said the Mayflower Manifest. I looked through the names and saw Moses Fletcher. Asking Mom about this, she said he was our relative but that paper was just a copy of the actual manifest.

Great. Thank you.

I am descended from the Rev Thomas Blossom who was a friend of Pastor Robinson. He did not make it to America and is buried in Leiden. Our family live in Queensland Australia.

What a load of nonsense. They were looking for freedom for THEIR religious beliefs. Anyone else's was witch craft, sin and evil.

Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. For being puritans some of them sounded a bit crazy to be honest. One almost was hung for mutainy while stranded on an island in the Bahamas after a shipwreck several years before The Mayflower.🤦🏼‍♀️ I read about people getting excommunicated seaveral times over. They were warriors though. They fought for this country in every war and worked on the underground railroad. They were amazing people.

They were NOT Puritans, they were Pilgrims. Two entirely different groups and colonies (Plymouth vs. Massachusetts Bay, respectively).

I’m a Mayflower descendant. This documentary is half baked. The depiction of Indian relations is completely biased. We know because we have the real history in our families.Don’t believe everything you watch

Mistake in the documentary. The image of the Mayflower is flying the Union Jack. The Act of Union did not take place until 1707.

I guess we're very fortunate our ancestors survived it all. 50% died is crazy.

They found a shipwreck...it seemed like no one had been here before ... ah, what?

history is gray & complex because it is made by human beings who are likewise

Imagine living their time!

I recently found out that I'm related to Samuel Fuller and John Alden. Alden is my 10th great grandfather, and Samuel is my 9th great grandfather.

Great movie. White European people rock 🪨. Plymouth Rock….

Great movie. Thanks for sharing. Take care and God Bless.

They were very brave people indeed. Reminds me of the Voortrekkers who came to South Africa.

William Bradford was an ancient ancestor of mine.

Puritans persecuted? What a load of propaganda. During the reigns of Elizabeth or James I, name two - just two - Puritans who were burned at the stake or tortured.They lost some civil rights, precisely because they wouldn't conform to the Anglican church, which was horribly sinful in their eyes. This rigid sanctimony made them quite unpopular and actively disliked - they banned Christmas, forbade dancing, tore down Maypoles, outlawed gambling and card games and theater performances, and would have turned England into a theocracy. They sought refuge in Holland, but the Dutch were too sinful for them. As for religious freedom in the New World, that's a damned lie. They wanted freedom for themselves, not for Quakers or Anabaptists or heaven forbid Catholics. They were horrified by Indian polygamy and polytheism whereas the Indians were astonished at how cruel they were to children and animals. The best that can be said about them is that they prized literacy.

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How did the native Americans read and understand the pilgrims note about paying them for the spring planting seed later ? This is an earnest question

Thank heavens for our colonial ancestors who made this place what it is. Everyone here is far better off than they would be otherwise.

Bradford is Helen Hunt's ancestor...its on Who Do You Are.

It pays to be a winner!

The Description says 1650?

What about the beer for the water was unfit to drink.

It was the beginning of what was inevitable. Evolution.

Great documentary it’s too bad the Native Americans represented in this film were malcontent. I have several Native American friends that love America and White people.

There were others here before they arrived. Some folks are direct descendants of the Puritans and they believed in literacy for both men and women which was not common back in England. The French were already here and were known to have gotten along better with the Indigenous nations and much of our language is indigenous based. Majority of roads today in Connecticut and the other New England states are the original native trails. Going back to the 1300's over what became Michigan, corresponds with what would become the fight for independence, eventually, with many different wars and conflicts. The Ulster Scots and Germans, all in the Appalachia region had a direct say in the war of Independence. The Dutch were here long before then, in the large NYC and Connecticut region too . Of course, I only barely touched what was happening, including what is now New Brunswick and Canada.

"some say .. since we are not in New York" (min. 18.30). This statement is utterly unhistoric. New Netherland only was taken by the English in 1664, and on that occasion named New York, 44 years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers at Cape Cod.

Go Sox!

WE didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.

who's that Indian calling a " liar"? he's the liar

If you are truly interested in REAL history, draw by on this piece. It’s pure fantasy.

Words of the Mayflower Compact> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p23gF9jQdnM.htmlfeature=shared. The Geneva Bible is also iconic of the Mayflower.

Jamestown schooled plymouth. 1607

I bet there homes where no where that nice the first couple year's,hey great great great great great grandpa you made it.😊😊😊

The narrator says that on the first Christmas there was little celebration because of the sickness. Actually the Pilgrims did not celebrate Christmas.

This was a good show, but why don't we learn about the other settlements that were here before Plymouth?

The Native Witch Doctor seemed a bit saucy in this documentary

24:18 pilgrims were the original squatters 😅

Because the English pilgrims were the ones with the courage fortitude and perseverance to forge this land into a mighty nation!

If there were only 102 passengers, and they arrived in mid November how did people die every day till March? Who wrote this?

Come on Gil, Get over it. Yes you have cause to be mad but if this series of events had different people from different countries, you probably wouldn't be speaking out today.

It's funny that the indian suggests that "they lied from the very start". Indians notoriously have no records, so we really cant know anything about that situation other than what was noted by the settlers.

Why don’t most documentaries about the European immigration to the United States rarely if ever mention that the Spanish were first then the French. They usually just start with the Mayflower of the Pilgrims & Puritans. It’s an Anglo-English narrative. Spain & France were there before England & also can’t forget the Dutch & Swedish also Russia with Alaska.

Rights for everyone but that only includes men! Who spoke up for the women?

I am so very thankful to God that the Pilgrims saw the wisdom of establishing Plymouth Colony as a republic instead of a democracy as many of you people continue to call it. I also thank God that the founders of the United States also saw, and followed the same wisdom. I am grateful that you conceded the importance of writing the Mayflower Compact, and successive laws. Writing endures. Memories fail. I thank God for Bradford, Massasoit, Standish, Squanto, saints, strangers, and Wampanoag and the others whose charity allowed Plymouth Colony to thrive.

Plymouth in "Every State", well, not in Oregon.

Puritans are pilgrams that broke away. I just looked it up..

After 50 years? I thought they were temporaries?

i used to move furniture for mayflower van lines. where's my reparations 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm so ashamed of my countrymen who went to the US back then. 😒

So they didn't bring their sickness here im confused

The only thing that saved us from Calvin and the western world of torture is the separation of Church and State. As a Christian my soul is rocked to the core reflecting upon the cast of characters and their belief systems. So let me get this straight they are going off to the unknown during storm season taking over 3 times as long as an average crossing. All of this a wonderful part of our history.... Yikes, you really can rationalize anything. MarkMannM2

The English constitution was established soon after the Roman legions left. It's principles and traditions were well known and practiced by everyone. When King John failed to uphold his duties under the constitution he was forced to sign a document called The Magna Carta in 1215 which spells out the principles and duties the monarch was required to uphold in return for his station. The English constitution was written before but reiterated in 1215. All laws and statutes padsed since that time had to comply with this foundational agreement.

Chicken pox, measles and mumps are NOT harmless diseases. Where does that guy get that info?

William Brewster descendant! 👋

When they sign the contract they are forming a corporation, a very American thing to do.

In all reality it was the merchants and traders who did the most to settle here.

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I thought this was “real” history.

So different from the later radical Puritans, who should never have been allowed to set foot upon these shores.

My family is descended from Bradford’s second wife.

Hahahaha THOMAS PAVEY... 3 SHIPS...SOUND FAM?

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The Indian man I understand he’s pissy but that was long ago

I expected “Real History” to be about HISTORY….this is a religious evaluation, not historical.

If it weren’t for the Indians helping them out. Showing them how to plant and get through the winters they would’ve starved to death and not be where they were then. So a lot of credit has to be given to the Indians. Let’s not forget them.

The Pilgrims went to the New World to Worship as they wished and then proceeded that anybody else near them be pilgrims as well. Becomes a little less noble when you hear it that way. Of course Indians had no rights at all once the Musket cleared them out. That issue goes back to the Bankers and a lesser degree the monarchs who simply needed boots on the ground who paid homage to England. The notion that Europeans could go to unknown lands and simply clear out the natives was in no way set in stone. Colonizing far away lands for exploitation was a concept totally new to Europeans if not all other parts of the known world. I suppose the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Spanish made the decision they had a right to. Who thought it over and decided they had a right to do that.. The first colony was in an area now called South Africa. It occurred around 1450. We all know about nations fighting nations usually if not always with borders touching the other nation. Of course the whole colonial mess started with Corporate entities. Before 1600, only Spain and Portugal were in the colonizing game/ To all essential purposes, all English colonizing after the monarchy ceased to be the main powerhouse, after the English Revolution. Most the work was done by corporations such as the East and West India Co. How do they go about claiming a land for England or Holland that is already occupied? Interesting that the elites who caused most of this shit are blaming it on White people. Most white people back then were Indentured Servants if they went to the New World. Hardly White People; definitely, multi=generational elites which was a race all to their own who never intermarried with ordinary whites

20:52 euroepan constitution not american.

IN GOD WE TRUST! GOD'S LAND. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND. ST JOHN 3:16! ❤ JESUS IS RETURNING SOON! GOD HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF HIS LAND IN AMERICA, BUT NOT FOR ETERNITY! HALLELUJAH! ❤️✝️❤️

Brilliant how history is portrayed by the modern educated.... The forgotten real history seems to be lost, all because it’s convenient....

Its should of been Japanese steal not that iron junk

This documentary is so full of political correctness that it's sickening. Long live America and all Americans!

I have a wild question... as humans have been on the earth at the same time, why didn't the Americas (North, South, and Central) have the advanced inventions? I know that the Spanish came in and wiped out lots of South American tribes and some of the North and Central American tribes beginning in the 1400s but why? Why did they not have the ships and steel and the advancements that won out? No one ever explains why Asians and Europeans advanced technology while other continents did not continue to advance. It's not raw intelligence of one race versus the other. I think we know that is not the case so why?

15th, 16th, & 17th Centuries New World Americas.

Definitely not comparable to going to outer space 😂😂😂 but okay

This Indian woman at the 24:26 mm is very prejudiced and should not be allowed to state her opinion. Another biased video.

And they should have known better than anyone that stealing is wrong

The United States is great. I am so lucky that my forefathers came here. Tardy to the party they came in the 30s...p.s. I had a teacher who claimed to b related 2 William Bradford. He died in 1998.

The Spanish: yeah, we been here about 155 years.

How come you people never mentioned that every explorer that landed here saw cooper colored people Webster’s definition of America, 1828✊🏿

When will my people accept that we lost the Conquest of America? The foreigners arrived, and beat us because we were divided as a people. If not the Europeans, it would've been us vs us. They did not do anything that we were doing to weaker tribes amongst our peoples. Look at the South Asian Indian in the video (48:44) looks like they are doing great for themselves. Why haven't our people progressed like these new immigrants?

They wanted the freedom to discriminate against other religious people, which they couldn't do in Britain

The ‘pilgrims’ didn’t colonize anything. Are you ignorant of the facts, or just choose the herd stance…

Babylon came to make the new Babylon .. as so the Bible says

Good history, shows the ground breaking concepts The world has benefited greatly. Unfortunately the migration of new groups swamped those who were nomadic people of Americas

"Liberal in their ideas".........Salem Witch Trials