The New England
Colonies
Pilgrims and Puritans

England was PROTESTANT
• PILGRIMS = SEPARATISTS
• Pilgrims thought England was not Protestant enough so they left
FIRST WENT TO HOLLAND
But Holland was
Too LIBERAL for them
Pilgrim ship: MAYFLOWER!
PILGRIMAGE: TO LEAVE FOR A RELIGIOUS PURPOSE

PILGRIMS FIRST
GO TO
HOLLAND, BUT
IT IS TOO
LIBERAL THERE
Pilgrim route from Holland to England and then America

Pilgrim’s Voyage to Plymouth

England
Plymouth
PILGRIM VOYAGE: 66 DAYS
LIVED ON THE SHIP FOR THE FIRST WINTER

The Mayflower was supposed to go to Virginia
PILGRIMS ended up in New England??????
December 25, 1620, they landed in Plymouth.

New England

The
Mayflower
Compact. This agreement help establish the idea selfgovernment and majority rule in
America.

The “gentlemen” among the Pilgrims sign the
MAYFLOWER COMPACT

Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock

Tough first winter: a
Native
American,
Squanto, helped the
Pilgrims
Taught them to plant, grow, and fish.

•The Plymouth settlement celebrated the blessings of the first good harvest, holding a three day feast.
It was a HARVEST
FESTIVAL.
A THANKSGIVING was a time of PRAYER AND FASTING

PURITANS WANTED TO PURIFY
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND
STAYED in England…for a while

•PURITANS decide to leave
England
•Once the PILGRIMS establish
Mass. The PURITANS COME
OVER IN HUGE NUMBERS
This became known as the Great
Migration.

FOR UNDERSTANDING

After the Pilgrims had settled, a religious group called the
______fled England to escape bad treatment . This became known as the______.
• 1) Pilgrims,
Reformation
• 3) Puritans, first
Thanksgiving
• 2) Quakers, Great
Escape
• 4) Puritans, Great
Migration

The Plymouth settlement celebrated the blessings of the first good harvest, holding a three day the feast called
______ .
• 1) Mayday
• 2) The Quaker festival of Friends
• 3) Plymouth Day
• 4) Harvest
Festival

The Pilgrims signed an agreement to obey laws established for the good of the colony called the______.
• 1) Mayflower
Compact
• 2) Magna Carta
• 3) Constitution
• 4) Bill of Rights

With a voyage arranged by the
Virginia Company, the Pilgrims set sail for America aboard the
______ and landed in______ ,
New England in______.
• 1) Santa Maria,
Roanoke, 1605
• 2) Sea venture,
Plymouth, 1625
• 3) Mayflower,
Plymouth, 1620
• 4) Mayflower,
Roanoke, 1620

After a devastating first winter, a Native American,______, helped the Pilgrims.
• 1) Powhatan
• 2) Squanto
• 3) Sitting Bull
• 4) Pocahontas

PEOPLE KICKED OUT OF MASSACHUSETTS
1. Roger
Williams
Roger Williams: Wanted to be nice to the Indians. PURITANS
KICK HIM OUT and he founds
RHODE ISLAND

2. ANNE
HUTCHINSON:
Believed that all people could hear
God’s voice.
"Anne
Hutchinson on
Trial"
Kicked out by the
Puritans goes to
New York