Saints and Strangers study

Question 1

What year did the Nauset Indians trot down the Cape Cod?

Answer 1

1620

Question 2

How many Nauset Indians trotted down the Cape Cod?

Answer 2

Five or six Nauset Indians.

Question 3

How many strangers did the Nauset Indians see coming towards them?

Answer 3

They saw sixteen strangers coming down towards them.

Question 4

Who were trotting down the Cape Cod?

Answer 4

The Nasuet Indians.

Question 5

What ships had been exploring the coast for a hundred years?

Answer 5

Spanish, French, and English ships.

Question 6

Who taught the newcomers how to plant Indian corn and fertilize it?

Answer 6

Squanto.

Question 7

What did Squanto do to plant and fertilize corn?

Answer 7

‘Squanto showed the newcomers how to plant Indian corn and fertilize it by PLACING A DEAD FISH ATOP EACH SEED.

Question 8

Who was Squanto captured by?

Answer 8

An Englishman.

Question 9

Where was Squanto taken to be sold to slave masters?

Answer 9

Squanto was taken to Spain.

Question 10

What were the members of the church called?

Answer 10

The members of the church are called Anglicans.

Question 11

What decision did the passengers make on board ship?

Answer 11

They made the remarkable decision to create a government of their own, combing together “into a civil body politic “ that would make “just and equal laws” for the colony’s good.

Question 12

What did the Anglicans mock the reformers as and got their name to stick?

Answer 12

The Anglicans mocked the reformers as Puritans and the name stuck.

Question 13

Who were mocked by their neighbors, fined, harassed by the government ?

Answer 13

Separatists.

Question 14

One reason King James disliked Puritans and Separatists.

Answer 14

Kings became distinctly peevish when their subject spoke too much.

Question 15

The fact is, fewer than half of the Mayflower’s 102 passengers were ___________.

Answer 15

The fact is, fewer than half of the Mayflower’s 102 passengers were Pilgrims.

Question 16

What did the Pilgrims say when they realized that the Mayflower wasn’t heading for Virginia anymore?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Where was the next holy commonwealth founded?

Answer 17

The next holy commonwealth founded in New England.

Question 18

How many years after the Pilgrims landed to begin in Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 18

Ten years later.

Question 19

______ years after the Pilgrims landed, nearly a thousand settlers came to begin the _____________________________, forty miles north of _________________.

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What did the Anglicans celebrate?

Answer 20

They celebrated Christmas and Saints day.

Question 21

Who founded Hartford, Connecticut?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What did the trader Thomas Morton set up near Plymouth?

Answer 22

He set up an outpost called Merrymount.

Question 23

What was the eight foot maypole made from?

Answer 23

It was made from a tall pine tree with a pair of deer antlers nailed on top which was “reared up” on the highest ground in Merrymount.

Question 24

What was William’s characteristics?

Answer 24

William was friendly, generous, and soft spoken.

Question 25

What did Roger Williams say regarding the state?

Answer 25

“Forcing someone to worship in a certain way “stinks in God’s nostrils,” he said.

Question 26

Who were the scouting party?

Answer 26

The newcomers were a scouting party of Pilgrims.

Question 27

What did the Nausets do when they reached a stream?

Answer 27

They sat down and drank our first New-England Water.

Question 28

Who is the Wampanoag Indian?

Answer 28

Squanto is the wampanoag Indian.

Question 29

Where did the Separatists live?

Answer 29

They lived in the town of Scrooby.

Question 30

Where did the Mayflower set sail for English colony?

Answer 30

The Mayflower set sail for the English colony of Virginia where King James had given permission to settle, so long as they behaved “peaceably.”

Question 31

Who chartered the legal document setting out what they could do?

Answer 31

The Pilgrims chartered, the legal document from king James setting out what they could do, said nothing about settling elsewhere.

Question 32

Why were the new colony of Plymouth Plantation holding annual elections?

Answer 32

They were holding annual elections in which the free men chose a governor and some assistants to manage Plymouth’s affairs.

Question 33

What were the odds of man and woman who can read?

Answer 33

SIX out of TEN men who came to Massachusetts could read —- double the usual number in England. Fewer women could, only about THREE in TEN.

Question 34

What do you have to do to become a full church member.

Answer 34

A person had to explain the personal religious experience that brought him or her to be born anew in the Holy Spirit.

Question 35

Who could vote in elections?

Answer 35

Only a church member can vote.

Question 36

What was the punishment for spreading false beliefs?

Answer 36

Their tongues could have been bored out with hot iron or being hanged.

Question 37

Who founded the Hartford, Connecticut and why?

Answer 37

It was founded by the Puritans because they believed the Massachusetts authorities were to strict.