Tuesday September 5th, 2017

Spiral Activity #8Plymouth Colony Cornell Notes

DRAW A

CORNELL NOTE

TEMPLATE FOR

ASSIGNMENT #8.(Use Page 1 of your spiral as a

reference!)

Pilgrims were known as

“Separatists”

They were Anglicans who

believed that the Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed, so they decided to leave to start their own religion

Persecuted in England,

they first went to Holland, and then left for the “New World”, founding the Plymouth Colony

The Pilgrims left England

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• Land grant acquired from Virginia Colony for religious separatists

• Storms blew them off-course

• Early harsh winter and disease killed many of the early settlers

• In 1621, the Pilgrims entered into a treaty with the Indians, who taught them survivalskills.

• Pilgrims celebrated first Thanksgiving withIndians

Plymouth Colony, 1620

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The Pilgrims created an agreement aboutgoverning in the New World:

The Mayflower Compact

Basically stated that government exists with the “consent of the governed”

The Pilgrims aboard theMayflower agreed to acceptand obey whatever laws thecolonists agreed to create

Pilgrims drew on belief of “social contract” and belief that covenants between men were as important as covenants made between God and man

The Compact signified the importance that legitimate government exists with the consent of those ruled

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We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.

--Mayflower Compact

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The Puritans

Puritans referred to a type of religious innovationrather than a particular religious group.

Puritans were frequently known as Dissenters.

Puritans were members of the Church of England (Anglican Church).

Who were the

Puritans?

•Puritans believed that the Anglican Church had kept too much ritual and tradition from the Catholic Church. They wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church rather than separate like the more radical Pilgrims, hence their name of “Puritans”.

•Puritans put great importance on the Bible, but objected to authority of Anglican bishops. They believed that they had to right to hire and fire their congregation’s ministers.

•Their goal was to establish model churches in the “New World” that would be adopted back in England.

Tuesday September 5th, 2017

Spiral Activity #9Jamestown vs. Plymouth

Draw this Venn Diagram in your spiral

VENN DIAGRAM DIRECTIONS

Think of the following points when completing your

Venn Diagram on Jamestown and Plymouth:

• Where did they come from?

• Why did the come to the “New World”?

• When did the come to the “New World”?

• What did the Pilgrims do different?

• Struggles and successes?

• How did the each interact with the

Natives?