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Directions – Imagine you & your group of classmates are colonizing a new world. A
few facts you must remember as you are prepared 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
heterogeneous – 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 FIVE SENTENCE compact that will govern your colony.
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PLYMOUTH COLONY
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1) Unlike the
J _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
colonists (also ENGLISH!) or the
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the New England colonists (Specifically, the PILGRIMS) came to the “new world” for what reason?
2) Define: PILGRIMS -
EUROPEAN STATES and RELIGION
3) 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
The Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth
4) 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
5) 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: PRECEDENT
MAYFLOWER COMPACT
In your own words, what are 4
things the compact says?
1.
"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are
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 our King and Country, a 2.
voyage to plant the first colony 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 3.
aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and
frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts,
Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be
thought most meet and convenient for the General good of
the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and 4.
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, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of
Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
Early Hardships
6) Identify 4 facts about the Pilgrims’ first winter in Plymouth:
7) The spring arrived & despite half of their population dying that winter, the Pilgrims began work
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and
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8) Identify Native Americans that helped the Pilgrims & 1 fact about each Native American:
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