Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers

What is known as the first democratic document in the New World?

• Declaration of Independence

• the US Constitution

• the Magna Carta

• the Mayflower Compact

Quakers believed in

• equality

• non-violence

• religious freedom

• all of the above

The first written plan for a democratic government in the New World was written on

• July 4, 1776

• November 11, 1620

• September 17, 1887

The strictest religion in the 1600s was the

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Quakers

Most groups came to the New World to

• escape the King

• escape religious persecution

• avoid jail time

• earn more money

TRUE or FALSE:

In Pennsylvania, Quaker women were allowed freedoms and rights unlike other colonies.

• True

• False

TRUE or FALSE:

Pilgrims were known as Anglicans.

• True

• False

TRUE or FALSE:

The Virginia Company of London had no control over the Pilgrims in the Plymouth Colony because William Bradford would not allow it.

• True

• False

Who signed the Mayflower Compact?

• men and women on the ship

• men

• women

TRUE or FALSE:

Two ways Quakers handled their dissent on a topic was to ignore it and to file a complaint with the Pope.

• True

• False