squanto was the indian that taught pilgrims how to plant corn.
squanto was the indian that taught pilgrims how to plant corn.
indian that taught pilgrims how to plant corn?
squanto
the expedition sighted cape cod on november 9, 1620, and landed at what is now provincetown, massachusetts. two days later, the men signed the "mayflower" compact, wherein all agreed to submit themselves to the will of the majority—one of the foundation documents of american democracy. they established a settlement at plymouth colony (today plymouth, massachusetts), but they had expected to land further south and were ill-equipped for a massachusetts winter. half died before spring came. there had been few native americans in the area, but in 1621, the settlers were approached by a group, including two, samoset and squanto, who spoke some english. squanto taught the pilgrims indigenous methods for cultivating corn (maize), a plant native to the new world with which the emigrants were unfamiliar. this knowledge helped the pilgrims gradually become established. the pilgrims grew in population relatively slowly over the first generations in america, and became a minority among settlers in the area. in 1691, plymouth colony became part of the province of massachusetts bay. bradford's wife had died while the ship was in provincetown harbor; after governor john carver perished during the first winter, bradford was elected in his place, and served fifteen two-year terms. he guided the colony from the communal economy necessary at first, to privatization, greatly increasing the harvest in the process. his diaries were published as "of plymouth plantation" and constitute the major source of information concerning the pilgrims' daily lives.
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since the 1940s, khrushchev had advocated the cultivation of corn (maize) in the soviet union. he established a corn institute in ukraine and ordered thousands of acres to be planted with corn in the virgin lands. in february 1955, khrushchev gave a speech in which he advocated an iowa-style corn belt in the soviet union, and a soviet delegation visited the u.s. state that summer. while their intent was to visit only small farms, the delegation chief was approached by farmer and corn salesman roswell garst, who persuaded him to insist on visiting garst's large farm. the iowan visited the soviet union in september, where he became great friends with khrushchev, and garst sold the ussr of seed corn. garst warned the soviets to grow the corn in the southern part of the country, and to ensure there were sufficient stocks of fertilizer, insecticides, and herbicides. this, however, was not done, as khrushchev sought to plant corn even in siberia, and without the necessary chemicals. while khrushchev warned against those who "would have us plant the whole planet with corn", he displayed a great passion for corn, so much so that when he visited a latvian "kolkhoz", he stated that some in his audience were probably wondering, "will khrushchev say something about corn or won't he?" he did, rebuking the farmers for not planting more corn. the corn experiment was not a great success, and he later wrote that overenthusiastic officials, wanting to please him, had overplanted without laying the proper groundwork, and "as a result corn was discredited as a silage crop—and so was i".
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