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Yes. Life was very hard at Plymouth. It was even harder at Jamestown -- I believe of 500 colonists at Jamestown, well over 400 died in the winter of 1610.

People weren't coming here for an easy life. They weren't coming here to get rich.
People came here in very large part because they wanted to worship God in accordance with their own beliefs, without having a King force them to do this or that. There were Quakers and Puritans and all sorts of people -- but they were overwhelmingly Christian. America was the land for Christians to worship God in freedom.

More than anything else, that is what America was founded upon.

8 posted on 03/17/2015 4:57:51 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)

9 posted on 03/17/2015 4:59:45 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)