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Unit 1 Chapter 3 - Plymouth
During our study of the Plymouth colony you will …
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Understand the Impact of religion on the Pilgrims
Understand the necessity for legal documents/contracts
Identify key influences, factors, and people that assisted/hindered the Pilgrims
Bell Ringer!
Directions: You and your row buddy will use this sheet to come up with 3 FACTS
(Bullets) about the Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony. YOU WILL BE SHARING
THESE WITH THE CLASS. Use the space provided below to write down your facts.
Write down 3 new facts you learned from your classmates…
Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony
Your Facts
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New Facts
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Directions – Imagine you & your group of classmates are colonizing a new world. A
few facts you must remember as you prepare to step foot onto this new world you
hope to make your new home:
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You have made an arduous, 2 month journey & have arrived in the new world exhausted
your group is culturally similar in many ways; but your group as a whole is NOT culturally
homogeneous – specifically, some of your group does not share all of the same beliefs
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You have a limited amount of supplies & no guaranteed food supply in this new world
Your group is comprised of a mixture of men, women, & children.
There has been a near mutiny aboard your ship on the way to the new world. That being
said, as you are preparing to exit your ship & step onto this new land, some of the men on
the ship claim that “none had power to command them.” (i.e. because this is a new land, none
of the previously understood laws/agreements apply any more, particularly because your
ship has not landed in the original, intended area of settlement …)
In the space below, agree on a SEVEN SENTENCE compact that will govern your colony.
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Sign if you agree: _________________________________________
Directions – Use page 93 of your textbook to answer the notes below. Questions that provide
space for an answer within a table may be bullet points. Questions that provide space for an
answer that is not within a table, should be answered in complete sentences.
Setting the Scene (pg. 93)
1) Based on the 1st paragraph of “setting the scene” AND the account offered by William
Bradford, identify 5 hardships these New England colonists face:
2) Unlike the
J _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
colonists (also ENGLISH!) or the
S _ _ _ _ _ _,
why did the New England colonists (Specifically, the PILGRIMS) want to come to the “new world”?
3) Define: PILGRIMS -
EUROPEAN STATES and RELIGION (pg. 93)
4) WRITING. Based on the first full paragraph of this section, Write 2 complete sentences
describing religious freedom in Europe during the 1500s.
5) The governments of European countries (monarchies) chose a religion to support as the official,
sanctioned religion of the government. This CHOSEN religion was known as the
E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ C _ _ _ _ _. In England and other nations, people that did not
follow the religion established by the government were often P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _for their
beliefs. This often meant being I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ by being
B _ _ _ _ _ at the S _ _ _ _.
6) OPINION. 2-3 Complete Sentences. How does our government approach religion today AND
how is it different than England in the 1500s?( top of next page)
Separatists Seek Religious Freedom (pg. 94)
7) Identify 5 facts about the “Pilgrims” before they left Europe for New England:
The Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth (pg. 94)
8) In September 1620, more than _ _ _ men, women, and children set sail aboard a small ship
called the M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . After a long, difficult journey they landed on the shore of
C _ _ _ C _ _, in present day Massachusetts.
They called their new settlement P _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
The Mayflower Compact (pg. 94-96)
9) The Mayflower Compact
A. Why was it established?
B. Who wrote & signed the
agreement?
C. What did they pledge to
do?
D. How did the compact help
establish an important
tradition?
E. Define: PRECENDENT
10) MAYFLOWER COMPACT
Questions
1. Who did the compact give
"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are
respect to?
underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign
Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England,
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&…”
“Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and
Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of 2. What did they vow to combine
our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony into?
in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents,
solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one
of another, covenant and combine ourselves together
into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and
Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends
aforesaid;…”
“And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, 3. What does the document want
such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts,
the colonists to submit and devote
Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be obedience to?
thought most meet and convenient for the General
good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due
submission and obedience…”
“In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our
names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, 4. When was the document signed?
France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the
fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
Early Hardships (pg. 96-97)
11) Identify 5 facts about the Pilgrims’ first winter in Plymouth:
12) The spring arrived & despite half of their population dying that winter, the Pilgrims began
work
C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L _ _ _
and
P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ C _ _ _ _.
13) Identify Native Americans that helped the Pilgrims & list 1 fact about each person:
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M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Jamestown vs. Plymouth
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Directions:
Compare and Contrast the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies. Use ALL of the following
terms in the chart below by putting them in the appropriate column.
Underline the following key terms: Roanoke (EXAMPLE), Representative Government, Religious
Tolerance, Tobacco, Gold, Squanto, Precedent, Mayflower Compact, Disease, Starvation, Powhatan,
House of Burgesses, and Slaves.
Jamestown
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1st settlement in the New
World, Roanoke, failed in
1585. Jamestown survived
after being established in
1607.
Similarities
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English colony
Plymouth
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Plymouth colony was
established in 1620 and was
successful.