TEXT:Pokanoket and Pilgrims find comm on ground and a chance to survive. Two unlikely allies. A partnership all too rare in North America.We have found the Indian very faithful in their covenant of peace with us. They are people without any religion or knowledge of any God, yet very trusty,quick of apprehension, ripe-witted... and just. Their victory brings a period of peace to the colony. Their friendship is celebrated in a feast.
In time, it will become known as Thanksgiving. One of the main themes in the founding of America was a place to do business, a place to expand your horizons, a place to live a life of your own, practice your own religion. Those are the basic themes that brought people to these shores to colonize. It's the start of a period of prosperity, that will transform North America. From Jamestown and Plymouth, their descendants grow across the
landscape. As more and more people cross the Atlantic-- thousands, tens of thousands, people with different backgrounds, different reasons for being here...America becomes the place for everybody from everywhere. Rolling the dice, coming together to create 13 colonies. From Jamestown, agriculture spreads across the South, dirt farms transform into sprawling plantations. Irish, Germans, and Swedes push back the frontier. The Dutch bring c ommerce to a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River. In time, it will be named New York. The colonists are 2 inches taller, and far healthier, than
those they left behind in Europe. The Puritans average eight children, and they are twice as likely to survive to adulthood. They are 20% richer and pay only 1/4 of the taxes of those in England. Many still think of themselves as British, but each generation grows further from its roots. Nowhere more so than Boston.

譯文:波卡諾基特人和清教徒們，也發現了共同生存的機會。意想不到的同盟結成了，這種同盟關系在北美極為罕見。我們發現印第安人非常遵守與我們達成的和平公約。他們沒有任何宗教信仰，不知神靈為何物，卻非常值得信賴，反應很快，機智無比而且有極強的正義感。他們的勝利給殖民地帶來了很長一段時間的和平。他們以一場盛宴來慶祝彼此的友誼，那就是感恩節的由來。[前紐約市市長]魯道夫·W·朱利安尼：“開拓美洲的目的之一是為了找一個可以擴大生意擴展視野的地方，一個可以過你自己愿意過的生活，信仰自己愿意信仰的宗教的地方。這些基本理念使得許多人飄洋過海來開拓殖民地。這是一個繁榮時代的開端，將完全改變北美。從詹姆斯敦和普利茅斯開始，殖民者的后代遍布整個大陸，越來越多的人越過大西洋，成千上萬不同背景的人帶著不同的理由來到這里，美利堅成為了全世界的人都渴望到達的地方。大家孤注一擲，匯聚到一起形成了最初的13個殖民地。農業從詹姆斯敦傳播到了南方，以前臟亂的小農莊也變成了大的種植園農場。愛爾蘭人，德國人和瑞典人不斷向前推進。荷蘭人將他們的生意帶到了哈德遜河口處的一個小島上。后來，這里被命名為紐約。比起留在歐洲的同胞，移民們平均要高2英寸，也更加健康。平均每個清教徒家庭養了8個小孩，孩子活到成年的比例是歐洲同胞的兩倍，比歐洲同胞更富有20%，賦稅只相當于英國本土的1/4。許多人仍然認為自己是英國人，但是隨著一代一代的成長，這種意識越來越淡薄。這一現象在波士頓尤為突出。