History and government of the United States, for evening schools . Early View of New Amsterdam possession of it, greatly to the regret of the governor, who was,nevertheless, unable to offer any resistance, since the Dutchseemed pleased with the idea of English rule. The name wasthen changed to New York. Even at this time New York wasa cosmopolitan city, in which no less than twenty-five differentlanguages were spoken. People from all the different countriesof the world were already coming to the beautiful trading The Pilgrims at Plymouth. — The little group of settlerswho, in 1020, la
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . Early View of New Amsterdam possession of it, greatly to the regret of the governor, who was,nevertheless, unable to offer any resistance, since the Dutchseemed pleased with the idea of English rule. The name wasthen changed to New York. Even at this time New York wasa cosmopolitan city, in which no less than twenty-five differentlanguages were spoken. People from all the different countriesof the world were already coming to the beautiful trading The Pilgrims at Plymouth. — The little group of settlerswho, in 1020, landed from the Maiiflower at IMymouth, Massa- HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 23. chusetts, numbered but one hundred and two. These first New-England people were known as Pilgrims because, in 1608,they had fled from England to Holland to avoid religious per-secution. In Holland they learnedfrom the Dutch many impor-tant lessons in matters of re-ligion and Holland theycame to America. Hardships. — Most ofthe settlers were verypoor. The winterswere long and se-vere, and such as tTthe immigrants had \^never known at home. Few of the The Mayflower settlers understood how to farm land. Sometimes the Indianswere friendly to them, and sometimes they were variable moods fearfully increased the difficulties ofthe settlers. These early days were days of heroism. AtPlymouth, Captain Myles Standish was the soldier whosebrave deeds helped to maintain the small colony, 25. The Emigration of the Puritans from England.—From 1628to 1640, after the settlement of Plymouth was well established,there was a very large emigration of people from Englan
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