“The mythic origin of ‘the country we now know as the United States’ is at Plymouth Rock, and the year is 1620.” James W. Loewen stresses this origin as mythic due to the fact that for thousands of years humans had inhabited the land now known as America. Loewen goes on to describe the horrors the native peoples of America went through due to the diseases and other such terrible things the white “settlers” brought to …showed first 75 words of 1528 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1528 total…culture? Of course not. Therefore, Manifest Destiny and the Puritan’s belief in predestination provide a legitimate argument for the pilgrims and settlers. (Loewen, Back of Book) Bibliography Bibliography “Manifest Destiny.” Encarta. 1993-1997. “Pilgrims.” Encarta. 1993-1997. Johnson, Caleb. “Common Mayflower Myths.” The Mayflower Webpages. 1998. Johnson, Caleb. “The Pilgrim’s Religious Beliefs.” The Mayflower Webpages. 1997. Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me. New York: Touchstone, 1995. Media3 Technologies. “The Mayflower Compact.” Plymouth: Its History and People. 1997.