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Who were the first to spot the Pilgrims?
“In 1620 five or six Nauset Indians were trotting down the Cape Cod beach one November day, their dog in the lead, when they saw sixteen strangers coming toward them.”
Why were so many Indian skulls and bones lying above the ground?
“So many Indians died, Bradford recalled, that ‘not being able to bury one another, their skulls and bones were found in many places lying still above the ground.’”
Why were the Puritans critical of the Church of England?
“True, the Church of England was Protestant, but its members (called Anglicans) still celebrated Christmas and saints’ days. Where did the Bible mention those holidays?”
Which of the following reasons did the Pilgrims leave England for the Dutch Low Countries?
“Mocked by their neighbors for their religious beliefs, fined and harassed by the government, they departed England for the Dutch Low Countries, where the laws allowed them to worship as they saw fit.”
Why did the Mayflower set sail for the English colony of Virginia?
“So in 1620 the Mayflower set sail for the English colony of Virginia where King James had given the Pilgrims permission to settle, so long as they behaved ‘peaceably.’”
What was the Mayflower Compact?
“On board ship, the passengers made a remarkable decision: 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. This agreement, the Mayflower Compact”
What did the Pilgrims mean by “strangers” on the Mayflower?
“The fact is, fewer than half of the Mayflower’s 102 passengers were Pilgrims. The rest were other English folk, brought along to help pay expenses.”
What was the king’s attitude towards Puritans and Separatists?
“Mocked by their neighbors for their religious beliefs, fined and harassed by the government.”
What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?
“The idea that people might elect representatives to govern themselves would become central to the founders of the future United States. But the belief was unusual in 1620.”
What did John Winthrop believe would happen if the Massachusetts Bay Colony followed God’s law?
“If the colony followed God’s law, ‘men shall say of succeeding plantations, ‘may the Lord make it like that of New England.’”
Why did some of the strangers on board the Mayflower complain about the Pilgrims’ authority?
“[W]hen a few of these folk discovered that the Mayflower wasn’t heading for Virginia anymore, they pointed out that the Pilgrims had no ‘power to command them.’”
Which of the following is not true about the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony?
“All colonists were required to attend services, even those who weren’t Christian.”
It was a minister named __________ who was banished from __________ for preaching his unusual ideas about prayer and was given shelter by the Wampanoag Indians.
Roger Williams, Massachusetts Bay
- __________ announced that government had no business meddling in religious affairs. It was not the __________’s job to make people go to church if they didn’t want to, or to decide who was a dangerous heretic.
Roger Williams, state
- “A rambunctious __________ named __________ set up his own outpost, called __________, near __________.”
fur trader, Thomas Morton, Merrymount, Plymouth
- What did Roger Williams say about forcing someone to worship in a certain way?
“Forcing someone to worship in a certain way “stinks in God’s nostrils,” he said.”
“Perhaps six out of __________ men who came to __________ could read—double the usual number in England. Fewer women could, only about __________ in ten.”
ten, Massachusetts, three
The key factor for a country to boom is __________.
“The first is something that everybody wants—yet something that’s not easy to get.”
What crop saved the struggling Jamestown colony?
“They had been planted—as a crop called tobacco, the very crop Virginians needed to set their colony booming.”
What did King James think of smoking tobacco?
“King James thought the custom of smoking was ‘loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.’”
- What was the primary purpose for founding Jamestown?
“On a river flowing into Chesapeake Bay they founded Jamestown … what they sought were ‘gold-showing mountains.’”
What did Captain John Smith do to ensure people did their fair share of work when he took charge of Jamestown?
“After several months in Virginia … Smith took charge and set everyone to work. He wouldn’t allow colonists who didn’t pull their weight to eat.”
Why was growing tobacco a profitable business in Virginia?
“It was backbreaking work—but the crop brought in five to ten times as much money as working on an English farm.”
What was the term for the process of adjusting to the hazards and climate of the new land in Virginia?
“If you survived your first twelve months, you were “seasoned”—that is, you had adjusted to the hazards and climate of the new land and had a better chance of continuing to stay alive.”
