Saints and Strangers

Question 1

What the Pilgrims did when they crossed a stream?

Answer 1

They sat down and drank their first “New- England Water”.

Question 2

Who was one of the leaders of the scouting party of pilgrims who had arrived at Cape Cod?

Answer 2

William Bradford.

Question 3

What happened to Bradford as he and the Pilgrims hiked through the woods?

Answer 3

He got caught by the leg by a hidden Indian Deer Trap.

Question 4

Why did the Nausets flee out the Cape Cod beach as soon as they saw the strangers approaching them?

Answer 4

Because the American Natives were already familiarized with the Europeans and feared that the newcomers were another group of them who came to do battle.

Question 5

What alternative method of planting crops did Squanto show to the newcomers?

Answer 5

Planting Indian corn and fertilizing it by placing a dead fish atop of each seed.

Question 6

They sailed west until they reached a more sheltered harbor, unloading their gear near the boulder known today as __________.

Answer 6

Plymouth Rock.

Question 7

How did the Squanto know to speak English?

Answer 7

He was a Wampanoag Indian who 6 years before the Pilgrims’ arrival, was captured by an Englishman who took him to be sold in the Slave Markets of Spain, but somehow managed to reach England, learned their language before returning to America.

Question 8

What was the Pilgrims’ main goal with their arrival in New England?

Answer 8

Creating a holy commonwealth of their own.

Question 9

True, the Church of England was ________.

Answer 9

Protestant.

Question 10

The ________ Church was governed by archbishops who wore handsome silk vestments.

Answer 10

Anglican.

Question 11

How were the protestants who withdrew completely from the Church of England called?

Answer 11

Separatists.

Question 12

Why were the skulls and bones of American Natives found in many places lying above the ground?

Answer 12

Because they were swept by the European Diseases and nobody was left to bury their mortal remains.

Question 13

What did the Separatists do to after being mocked by their neighbors and fined and harassed by the government of England?

Answer 13

They departed to the Dutch Low Countries.

Question 14

In 1620, the __________ set sail for the English colony of Virginia.

Answer 14

Mayflower.

Question 15

Which was the remarkable decision the passengers on board the ship made?

Answer 15

To create a government of their own, combining together “into a civil body politic” that would make “just and equal laws” for the colony’s good.

Question 16

How was this agreement called?

Answer 16

The Mayflower Compact.

Question 17

The new colony of ____________ began holding annual elections in which the free men chose a governor and some assistants to manage its affairs.

Answer 17

Plymouth Plantation.

Question 18

What was one reason King James disliked Puritans and Separatists?

Answer 18

Since they could judge by themselves, they could criticize him, his co uncle and all their proceedings at their pleasure.

Question 19

How were the Pilgrims called by the rest of the passengers on the ship?

Answer 19

Strangers.

Question 20

What did the few English folk aboard of the Mayflower did once they discovered that the ship wasn’t heading to Virginia anymore?

Answer 20

They pointed out that the Pilgrims had no “power to command them.”

Question 21

The Mayflower Compact allowed ____________________________.

Answer 21

all free men take to part in the colony government, not just Pilgrims.

Question 22

Ten years after the Pilgrims landed, nearly a thousand settlers came to begin the ______________, forty miles north of Plymouth.

Answer 22

Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Question 23

Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 23

John Winthrop.

Question 24

Puritans felt that Church members should include only __________, not everyone in the community.

Answer 24

The Saved.

Question 25

A rambunctious fur trader named ____________ set up his own outpost, called Merrymount, near Plymouth.

Answer 25

Thomas Morton.

Question 26

How many strangers did the Indians saw coming toward them?

Answer 26

Sixteen.

Question 27

_______ men who came to Massachusetts could read–______ the usual number in England. Fewer women could, only about _______.

Answer 27

six out of ten, double, three in ten.

Question 28

Unlike in the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth, in Massachusetts _____________.

Answer 28

only church members could vote in elections.

Question 29

__________, was founded by Puritans who believed that the Massachusetts authorities were too strict.

Answer 29

Hartford, Connecticut

Question 30

Thomas Morton set his own outpost, called _______, near Plymouth. Morton enjoyed the company of _________.

Answer 30

Merrymount, Indians.

Question 31

Who were the rest of the Mayflower’s passengers besides the Pilgrims?

Answer 31

The rest were other English folk, brought up along to pay expenses.

Question 32

What did John Winthrop say that would happen if the Massachusetts Bay colony followed God’s law?

Answer 32

Men would succeed in plantations.

Question 33

What did Roger Williams say about forcing someone to worship in a certain way?

Answer 33

“it stinks in God’s nostrils.”

Question 34

What did someone need to do in order to fully become a church member?

Answer 34

Explaining how he/she had been converted.

Question 35

According to Roger Williams, the government should stay separated from religion because:

Answer 35

It was not the state’s job to make people go to church if they didn’t want to, or to decide who was a dangerous heretic.