Pilgrims/Mayflower

Question 1

What year did the Mayflower depart

Answer 1

1620

Question 2

King ___ the ___ declared himself head of a new national church called the Church of ___

Answer 2

Henry, eight, England

Question 3

What else is the Church of England known as? What religion is practiced?

Answer 3

The Anglican Church
Protestantism

Question 4

What was the problem with King Henry the Eight’s church?

Answer 4

Retained too many practices from the Roman church, which is what existed before his reign

Question 5

Who were the puritans and what did they give King Henry?

Answer 5

Wanted to “purify” the Church from within
Passive obedience

Question 6

Sepratists

Answer 6

People that believed that the church could not be purified and wanted to separate from it

Question 7

What did the puritans want for the Church?

Answer 7

To make it even more protestant like the earlier christians worshiped

Question 8

Where was the separatists church congregation that established Plymouth centered?

Answer 8

Scrooby England

Question 9

Why did they want to separate and why could they not?

Answer 9

They were persecuted, hanged, and jailed for their beliefs
They wanted religious freedom

Question 10

Why did the separatists flee to Dutch Netherlands for 11 years

Answer 10

They could practice their own religion under the lenient laws

Question 11

Where did they stay in the Netherlands

Answer 11

Amsterdam and then Leiden

Question 12

Why did they leave the Netherlands?

Answer 12

Everyone had to work a lot and they were afraid the kids would lose their English roots

Question 13

What did they decide to do?

Answer 13

Establish a farming village in the Northern part of the Virginia Colony and settle near present-day NYC

Question 14

How did they plan to live in the New World?

Answer 14

under the English government but they would worship in their own separate church

Question 15

What did they do because they didn’t have enough money to establish the village?

Answer 15

They made a deal with Thomas Weston, London Businessman

Question 16

What was the deal with Weston?
What did this cause many separatists to do?

Answer 16

they would give him all their profits for seven years in exchange for resources, supplies, and a ship. Hearing this, many separatists backed out causing Weston to put strangers on the ship bc he wanted money

Question 17

What happened to the Speedwell?

Answer 17

Master Reynolds didn’t want pilgrims to go on journey so he built the ship so it would leak the first time
It turned back
Was brought to Reynolds to fix again
Reynolds pretended to fix it
Sent it back
Leaked again so it was left behind for good
Pilgrims set a month back

Question 18

When did the Mayflower set out and how many passengers

Answer 18

1620, 102

Question 19

How long was voyage

Answer 19

66 days

Question 20

Why did they settle at Cape Cod

Answer 20

Dangerous shoals + poor winds = seek shelter at Cape Cod
Too late in year + travel around Cape Cod being difficult = decided to stay in New England

Question 21

What was the Mayflower Compact

Answer 21

Compact written by separatist + stranger man for self governance and maintaining peace as the pilgrims knew they needed law abiding souls to make the colony successful
First document in the New World that established self governance

Question 22

Who signed the Mayflower compact

Answer 22

41 white men
Separatists + strangers

Question 23

What happened with the strangers since they landed in Cape Cod

Answer 23

The strangers did not want to follow Virginian laws so they made Mayflower Compact to maintain peace

Question 24

What was the place the able men found to settle?

Answer 24

An abounded Wampanoag community with plentiful water, good harbor, cleared fields and a location on a hill

Question 25

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Answer 25

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Question 26

What happened 4 months after their arrival with the Indians
Who did they sign it with

Answer 26

They made a treaty of mutual protection with the Pokenet Wompanoag leader, Massoit

Question 27

Squanto

Answer 27

A native American man taken captive by english sailors that lived in London who taught them how to farm corn

Question 28

How did they mark their first harvest and the growing of food?

Answer 28

Massoit joined the English with 90 men for feasting and entertainment

Question 29

Over the next ___ years, more ____ colonists came to Plymouth and many people that stayed behind were able to join their ___

Answer 29

6, English, families

Question 30

___ were good and the colony was ___. ___ people lived there by 1627.

Answer 30

Harvests, stable, 160

Question 31

Problems aboard the ship

Answer 31

No sanitation
5 feet of space
Too much sodium in food + dehydration + hypothermia
Everyone drank beer
Cracks on beams
Storms

Question 32

Much of what is known about the pilgrims is through the journal of ___

Answer 32

William Bradford

Question 33

Who became governor after John Carver died?

Answer 33

William Bradford

Question 34

Who were the leaders?

Answer 34

John Carver, William Bradford, William Brewster, Myles Standish, Edward Winslow

Question 35

What was the name of the company that funded the Mayflower?

Answer 35

The Virginia Company