Saints and strangers

Question 1

When did the Pilgrims arrive?

Answer 1

1630

Question 2

Who were the first of many protestants who came into New England looking to create a healthy commonwealth?

Answer 2

The Pilgrims

Question 3

Who founded Hartford Connecticut?

Answer 3

Puritans

Question 4

What does discontented mean?

Answer 4

Dissatisfied, especially with one’s circumstances.

Question 5

Where did Williams move to?

Answer 5

Plymouth

Question 6

When the line was drawn between the church and the state in Williams, what did it become?

Answer 6

Rhode Island

Question 7

What does mocked mean?

Answer 7

Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.

Question 8

What does primitive mean?

Answer 8

Relating to or denoting or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary development of something.

Question 9

When did the Mayflower set sail to the English colony?

Answer 9

1620

Question 10

Who did the Puritans banish?

Answer 10

Roger Williams

Question 11

Who did Morton and his trader friends invite to dance, sing and carouse around and eighty foot maypole?

Answer 11

The Indians

Question 12

What did Thomas Morton trade for the Indians fur?

Answer 12

“Morton traded guns to the Indians in return for their furs.”

Question 13

Why did William go back to Massachusetts Bay?

Answer 13

“William went back to Massachusetts bay and tried to discipline Williams for preaching his unusual idea; he condemned the colony’s ministers.”

Question 14

What was a maypole?

Answer 14

“A creation made from tall pine trees with a pair of deer antlers nailed on top, which was then “reared up” on the highest ground of Merry mount.”

Question 15

Who was Squanto?

Answer 15

Wampanoag Indian

Question 16

Who was the Anglican church governed by?

Answer 16

Archbishops

Question 17

Where did the Separatists live?

Answer 17

In the town of Scooby.

Question 18

Where was the next holy common wealth founded?

Answer 18

New England

Question 19

Where did the Pilgrims go when they fled out of fear?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Who was one of the leaders of the new scouting party of Pilgrims?

Answer 20

William Bradford

Question 21

Where did many girls learn to read?

Answer 21

Dame Schools

Question 22

What was the name of the fur trader that lived in an outpost called Merry mount, near Plymouth?

Answer 22

Thomas Morton

Question 23

What happened to Bradford as they were walking through the woods?

Answer 23

They ran across an Indian trap baited with acorns spread around a hidden noose. As Bradford walked through, the trap gave “a sudden jerk up, and he was immediately caught by the leg.

Question 24

By 1620 when the Pilgrims had arrived who was exploring the coast for a hundred years?

Answer 24

Spanish, French, and English ships.

Question 25

What did Squanto teach the Pilgrims how to do?

Answer 25

How to plant Indian corn and fertilize it by placing a dead fish atop each seed.