Pilgrims and Puritans

Pilgrims and Puritans

The Pilgrims

• came to gain wealth, spread religion, have their own land, and have freedom

• William Bradford lead a group of Separatist to start a settlement

• wanted to settle in the area of Virginia, aware of the hard times ahead

Multiple Choice

What was not a reason that the Pilgrims wanted to move to Virginia?

• freedom

• better food

• wealth

• their own land

The Mayflower

• September 1620, boat with 100 pilgrims

• storms pushed them off track and ended up north of Virginia

• Named the area New England

• chose a rocky harbor to settle and named it Plymouth

• wrote the Mayflower Compact

Multiple Choice

Why did they settle somewhere else?

• they didn't want to go to Virignia

• better food

• a storm

• a city of gold

Hard Times

• freezing weather

• hunger

• disease

• nearly half of the settlers died during the first three months

• In the spring they met Native Americans that helped them figure out how to grow food to live

Multiple Choice

What saved the settlers

• increase in fish

• Native Americans

• medicine

• more help from England

The Puritans

• 1630 another group arrived from England for religious freedoms

• They had already learned important lessons from those who had already settled

• the first small group went over to start the colony and then more came once it started

• brought cows and food with them

Multiple Choice

What did they do different than the Pilgrims?

• brought food and a small group of people

• sent only women

• made friends with Natives

• died in the first 3 months

Puritans

• settled in an area of Massachusetts and named it Boston

• grew rapidly and economy thrived

• fishing, fur trading, and ship building

• 1,000 people came to Boston it was the largest city for 100 years

Multiple Choice

Which was not a way that Puritans made money?

• shoe making

• fishing

• fur trading

• ship building