CH. 7 LESSON 4

Plymouth Colony

Big Picture

Early in the 1500s much of Europe was divided over religion.

The king of England, Henry VIII, broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and set up another Christian church called the Church of England.

The members of the church of England were called Protestants because they had protested against practices of the Catholic church.

Protestants beliefs and practices were different from those of other Christian religions

Some felt they still were too Catholic, so they set up their own churches

Moved to Netherlands in early 1600’s for peace

Life was difficult in a foreign land

William Bradford a leader of a separatist group who decided to go to a settlement of their own

PilgrimsTraveler for religious purposesWent to Virginia Company for permission to start a new settlement in Virginia

Began preparing for a difficult journey (notice how different from the Jamestown group)

Mayflower and Speedwell ships

The Mayflower

1620: King James I allowed Pilgrims to settle in Virginia

Merchants from London agreed to pay for voyage in exchange for lumber and furs

Sept. 1620, about 100 Pilgrims crowded into the small ship for a rough and difficult voyage

The Mayflower

Hold below the deck held barrels of salted beef and bread

Also pigs, chickens and goats

66 day voyage

One passenger died, one gave birth

The MayflowerBlown off course, instead of landing in Virginia, they landed at Cape Cod

This area named New England, choose a rocky harbor called Plymouth

Journey of the Mayflower: http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/journey.htm

Tour of the Mayflower: http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/tour.htm

Page 187 in Textbooks

A day’s activities might be:

Wake up, put away the beddingPrayersBreakfastIn good weather, activities like reading, games,

exercise on deckCooking by the women in good weatherDinner (noon meal)Activities similar to the morningSupperPrayersSleep

Medicine Medicine

Mayflower Compact

Pilgrims supposed to settle in Virginia, not New England

Before setting foot on land, the Pilgrims wrote a compact, or agreement

The compact would serve as form of govt. for their colony

Mayflower Compact

In the Mayflower Compact, the Pilgrims agreed to make and obey the colony’s “just and equal laws”

41 men signed the compact

Important Step! Helped plant the idea of self-govt. among the colonists of North America

John CarverWilliam BradfordEdward WinslowWilliam BrewsterIsaac AllertonMiles StandishJohn AldenSamuel FullerChristopher MartinWilliam MullinsWilliam WhiteJames ChiltonJohn CraxtonJohn Billington

Richard WarrenJohn HowlandSteven HopkinsEdward TillyJohn TillyFrancis CookThomas RogersThomas TinkerJohn RigdaleEdward FullerJohn TurnerFrancis EatonMoses FletcherDigery PriestThomas Williams

Gilbert WinslowEdmond MargesonPeter BrownRichard BitteridgeRichard ClarkRichard GardinerJohn AllertonThomas EnglishEdward DotenEdward LiesterJohn GoodmanGeorge Soule

Pilgrims Land

Lonely, winter, cold, bitterWilliam Bradford wrote a book about

conditionsPAGE 189Everyone went hungry, many died of

diseaseBy spring, only half were still aliveWilliam Bradford is elected leader

Started their colony November 20

In the first 3 months nearly half of the settlers died

In the spring the settlers are planting crops when a Native Am. walks out and says, “Welcome, Englishmen!”

The Wampanoag

Like Jamestown settlers, there were already people here

Helped the PilgrimsSamoset: learned English from traders,

useful information for colonistsSquanto: captured by English, found

home with Wampanoag and helped the Pilgrims

Colonists would not have survived the hard years without them

First Thanksgiving

Plymouth, 1621Not exactly sure who invited who

Lasted 3 daysNot exactly sure what food, but crops and game

A celebration to give thanks

Assignment

# 1 – 4 on page 191 in textbook.