Plymouth

What caused the Pilgrims to land at Cape Cod instead of Northern Virginia?

• A storm

• A bad map

• They wanted to land at Cape Cod

• a attack on the ship by the Spanish

Mayflower Compact

• Signed between the Natives and the Colonists on the shores of Cape Cod

• Signed by the settlers of Jamestown to create a formal government in Virginia

• created a civil body politic or government by the voyagers on the Mayflower to make sure everyone followed the laws for the general good of the colony

• A letter for men and women to sign when coming onto the boat

William Bradford

• Sailed to Jamestown

• was Governor of Plymouth for 36 years

• One of the Pilgrims who died in the first months

• Married Pocahontas then sailed back to England

When was the first Thanksgiving?

• 1620

• 1517

• 1607

• 1621

Martin Luther protested the Catholic church in 1517 resulting in

• The Protestant Reformation

• the Catholic Church listening to him and changing their ways

• England banning him from the country

• The Reformation Proclamation

Persecution

• the process that someone accused of a crime has to go through

• treating someone cruelly and unfairly due to their beliefs

• cutting something into exact pieces

• occurred only in the New World

The new government created by the Pilgrims allowed

• only women to participate

• both men and women to participate

• allowed all colonists to fully participate in the government

• only men to participate

Separatists

• A group of settlers that wanted to leave Jamestown

• Colonists of the New World that wanted to separate from the Old World

• A Protestant group that wanted to separate from the Church of England but were persecuted for their beliefs

• A Catholic group that wanted to separate from Spain

Why could Squanto speak fluent English?

• He learned it from the Jamestown settlers

• He learned it from previous explorers

• He was captured by the English and sold as a slave in Spain and then in England

• no one is sure how exactly he learned it

How were the Pilgrims able to grow food in the poor soil?

• they patiently planted seeds until something grew

• grew it inside a greenhouse

• they weren't able to instead they hunted and fished for food

• the Natives taught them to use fish as a fertilizer to make the plants grow