• Imagine you & your group
of classmates are colonizing
a new world
• You will create and agree on
a FIVE SENTENCE compact
that will govern your colony
• A few facts you must
remember as you are
prepared to step foot onto
this new world you hope to
make your new home:
• difficult, 2 month journey
• Exhausted
• NOT culturally
heterogeneous –
specifically, some of your
group does not share all of
the same beliefs
• limited supplies & no
guaranteed food supply in
New World
• Mixture of men, women, &
children
• near mutiny
• “none had power to
command them”
• Unlike the Jamestown colonists (also English)
or the Spanish, the New England colonists
came to the New World for religious freedom
• What does this mean?
• Pilgrim – a person who travels a long
distance for religious reasons
*Pilgrims will settle Plymouth
Some Colonists (like the Pilgrims) Moved to The
New World for Religious Freedom
• Europeans did not have the freedom of
religion – they had to follow the established
faith of the monarchy (King or Queen)
• People who did not were often PERSECUTED
for their beliefs. This often meant being
IMPRISONED or EXECUTED (killed).
OR
• In September 1620, more than 100 men,
women, and children set sail aboard a small
ship called the MAYFLOWER .
• After a long, difficult journey they landed on
the shore of CAPE COD, in present day
Massachusetts.
• They called their new settlement PLYMOUTH.
Intended landing spot (Virginia)
The
Mayflower
Plymouth
Jamestown
Pilgrims
landed here
PRECEDENT
The Mayflower Compact signed by 41 of the ship’s 100+ passengers
PILGRIMS 1st WINTER
• Difficult to survive
• Lack of food
• Inadequate shelter
• Disease
The spring arrived & despite half of their
population dying that winter, the Pilgrims began
work CLEARING LAND and PLANTING CROPS
Local Wampanoag Native Americans Helped the Pilgrims
Chief Massasoit of Wampanoag tribe
Massasoit smoking a peace pipe with Governor
John Carver in Plymouth 1621
Statue of Massasoit in Plymouth,
overlooking the site of Plymouth
Rock
Squanto helps the Pilgrims learn to
grow crops