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Christopher Columbus Misleadings

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What I was taught as a kid about pilgrims and thanksgiving is very misleading. In elementary, I like most kids. Where taught that Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe to the Americas on three ships. Soon after arrival. The English/pilgrim’s made allies with the natives, made homes. And began a huge feast. But this is not completely true.
Plymouth Colony was a group of English Protestants who wanted to break away from the Church of England. They sailed across the Atlantic to settle in a New World. In hopes to find religious freedom and trade. A ship carrying 101 people spent 66 days traveling the Atlantic Ocean. They found themselves at what is now called Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The modern Thanksgiving holiday started to take shape. In
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