Saints and Strangers Flashcards
What the Pilgrims did when they crossed a stream?
They sat down and drank their first “New- England Water”.
Who was one of the leaders of the scouting party of pilgrims who had arrived at Cape Cod?
William Bradford.
What happened to Bradford as he and the Pilgrims hiked through the woods?
He got caught by the leg by a hidden Indian Deer Trap.
Why did the Nausets flee out the Cape Cod beach as soon as they saw the strangers approaching them?
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.
What alternative method of planting crops did Squanto show to the newcomers?
Planting Indian corn and fertilizing it by placing a dead fish atop of each seed.
They sailed west until they reached a more sheltered harbor, unloading their gear near the boulder known today as __________.
Plymouth Rock.
How did the Squanto know to speak English?
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.
What was the Pilgrims’ main goal with their arrival in New England?
Creating a holy commonwealth of their own.
True, the Church of England was ________.
Protestant.
The ________ Church was governed by archbishops who wore handsome silk vestments.
Anglican.
How were the protestants who withdrew completely from the Church of England called?
Separatists.
Why were the skulls and bones of American Natives found in many places lying above the ground?
Because they were swept by the European Diseases and nobody was left to bury their mortal remains.
What did the Separatists do to after being mocked by their neighbors and fined and harassed by the government of England?
They departed to the Dutch Low Countries.
In 1620, the __________ set sail for the English colony of Virginia.
Mayflower.
Which was the remarkable decision the passengers on board the ship made?
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.
How was this agreement called?
The Mayflower Compact.
The new colony of ____________ began holding annual elections in which the free men chose a governor and some assistants to manage its affairs.
Plymouth Plantation.
What was one reason King James disliked Puritans and Separatists?
Since they could judge by themselves, they could criticize him, his co uncle and all their proceedings at their pleasure.
How were the Pilgrims called by the rest of the passengers on the ship?
Strangers.
What did the few English folk aboard of the Mayflower did once they discovered that the ship wasn’t heading to Virginia anymore?
They pointed out that the Pilgrims had no “power to command them.”
The Mayflower Compact allowed ____________________________.
all free men take to part in the colony government, not just Pilgrims.
Ten years after the Pilgrims landed, nearly a thousand settlers came to begin the ______________, forty miles north of Plymouth.
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
John Winthrop.
Puritans felt that Church members should include only __________, not everyone in the community.
The Saved.
