Pilgrims and Puritans

Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the relationships between the Pilgrims and Puritans and the Native Americans?

• The Pilgrims enslaved the Native Americans. The Puritans let the Native Americans live their own life style.

• Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans forced Native Americans to work without pay.

• Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans treated the Native Americans very well.

• The Pilgrims built good relations based on cooperation with Native Americans. But the

  Puritans tried to force Christianity on the Native Americans. That led to conflict.

Which of the following statements is true about both the Pilgrims and the Puritans?

• Both groups left England to be free to practice their religion.

• Both groups cooperated with the Native Americans and got along well with them.

• The two groups fought often. Many people on both sides died in battle.

• Both groups believed strongly in education. Children in both groups had to attend school

  every day.

Which of the following did the Pilgrims promise to do in the Mayflower Compact?

• allow their members not to take part in the church if they did not want to

• conquer the Native Americans

• work together to make “just and equal laws”

• defeat the Spanish army that had built a fort in New England

The Pilgrims cooperated with the Native Americans, and both groups benefited. The

Puritans tried to force Christianity on the Native Americans. That led to conflict between

the two groups.

Which of the following is true about these statements?

• The statements are correct about the Pilgrims, but incorrect about the Puritans.

• The statements are correct about the Puritans, but incorrect about the Pilgrims.

• The statements are incorrect about both the Pilgrims and the Puritans.

• The statements are correct about both the Pilgrims and the Puritans.

Which Native American helped the Pilgrims communicate with the Wampanoag leader?

• Massasoit

• Squanto

• Puritans

• Iroquois

The Pilgrims first landed at a place called Cape Cod. But they soon moved inland, to the

site of the Plymouth Plantation. Why did they not stay in Cape Cod? (map on pg. 82)

• because the soil was poor, and they wanted to settle in a place that had good soil for

  farming

• because the Spanish had a fort at Cape Cod, and Spanish soldiers attacked the

  Pilgrims to force them to leave

• because the Native Americans in Cape Cod warned the Pilgrims to leave or face a war

• because Cape Cod was full of mosquitoes, which carried disease

Which of the following BEST describes life at Plymouth Plantation?

• Life was focused on education. Children spent all day in school.

• Life was based on farming. The Pilgrims enslaved the local Native Americans and used

  their labor to grow many cash crops.

• Life at Plymouth Plantation was a series of wars with Native Americans and Spanish

  invaders.

• Life was hard. The Pilgrims had to grow their own food and build their own houses.

  Everyone, including children, had to work.

someone who agrees to work without pay for someone else for a set time

• Mayflower Compact

• Indentured servant

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they left England to find religious freedom

• Mayflower Compact

• indentured servant

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

the agreement the Pilgrims wrote to say how they would govern themselves

• Mayflower Compact

• indentured servant

• Puritans

• Pilgrims