• Imagine you & your group of classmates are colonizing a new world
• You will create and agree on a FIVE SENTENCE compact that will govern your colony
• A few facts you must remember as you are prepared to step foot onto this new world you hope to make your new home:
• difficult, 2 month journey • Exhausted• NOT culturally
heterogeneous – specifically, some of your group does not share all of the same beliefs
• limited supplies & no guaranteed food supply in New World
• Mixture of men, women, & children
• near mutiny • “none had power to
command them”
• Unlike the Jamestown colonists (also English) or the Spanish, the New England colonists came to the New World for religious freedom
• What does this mean?• Pilgrim – a person who travels a long
distance for religious reasons*Pilgrims will settle Plymouth
Some Colonists (like the Pilgrims) Moved to The New World for Religious Freedom
• Europeans did not have the freedom of religion – they had to follow the established faith of the monarchy (King or Queen)
• People who did not were often PERSECUTED for their beliefs. This often meant being IMPRISONED or EXECUTED (killed).
OR
• In September 1620, more than 100 men, women, and children set sail aboard a small ship called the MAYFLOWER .
• After a long, difficult journey they landed on the shore of CAPE COD, in present day Massachusetts.
• They called their new settlement PLYMOUTH.
Mayflower voyage (1620)
Intended landing spot (Virginia)
The Mayflower
Plymouth
Jamestown
Pilgrims landed here
ESTABLISH LAW
41 MALE PASSENGERS
UNITE IN A GOVT. & FOLLOW LAWS
PEOPLE GOVERNING THEMSELVES
AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW IN THE FUTURE
PRECEDENT
The Mayflower Compact - signed by 41 of the ship’s 100+ passengers
Props to King and to God (We are his loyal subjects and
want to start this colony for the glory of God, to advance
Christianity and honor the King)
We commit to work together and promise to
form a government
We will make laws and political offices that benefit us all and promise to obey
the laws We sign our names today at
Cape Cod Nov. 11, 1620
PILGRIMS 1st WINTER
• Difficult to survive• Lack of food• Inadequate shelter• DiseaseThe spring arrived & despite half of their population dying that winter, the Pilgrims began work CLEARING LAND and PLANTING CROPS
Local Wampanoag Native Americans Helped the Pilgrims
Chief Massasoit of Wampanoag tribe
Massasoit smoking a peace pipe with Governor John Carver in Plymouth 1621
Statue of Massasoit in Plymouth, overlooking the site of Plymouth Rock
Squanto helps the Pilgrims learn to grow crops