We Shall Remain Part 1: After the Mayflower
Directions: Answer the questions from this worksheet as you watch the film. Your answers DO NOT
need to be complete sentences. Questions are all in chronological order as you see the events in the
film.
1. What year did the iconic first Thanksgiving feast likely happen in?
2. What bound the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag together in the 1620’s?
3. What did the name “Wampanoag” mean? Why where they called this?
4.
What was the name of the Native American culture/people that the Wampanoag were a part
of?
5. Why did the French explorer Champlain not want to colonize the region that would later
become New England?
6. What ravaged the population of the Wampanoag just before the Mayflower arrived in 1620?
7. How many of the 105 Pilgrims that founded the Plymouth colony died by the end of the first
winter?
8. What was the name of the Indian who translated for Massasoit when he negotiated his treaty
with Governor Carver?
9. What did Winslow do during Massasoit’s illness that earned the Sachem’s trust and friendship?
10. What did the English decide to use for currency in their trade with Native Americans during the
17th century?
11. How many immigrants arrived in Massachusetts in 1630? What was the mission of the Puritans?
12. What English animal did the most damage to the Native American food supply during the early
settlement period?
13. Why did the English go to war with the Pequot in 1637? How did many Algonquin leaders react
after the English defeated the Pequot?
14. What were the purpose of the “Praying Indian Towns” set up throughout New England in the
1650’s?
15. Who became king of the Wampanoag after Massasoit died?
16. What was the most common method that the English people used to get Indian land?
17. What did the English call Philip’s war against the New England colonies?
18. What happened to the Indians living in the Praying Towns during the war between the colonists
and Philip?
19. What did the English troops do to Philip’s body after they killed him?
Short Essay (3-6 sentences)
This film meticulously documents the first interactions between Native Americans and European settlers
in the region that would later become New England. Based on what you have seen here, explain in your
words what factors played the biggest role in the destruction of the Native American way of life. Why did
the Native Americans and Europeans not live in harmony with one another as they had those first few
decades of the 17th century?