• 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