1620 The Mayflower Ship The Mayflower ship was captained and owned by Christopher Jones Jones was hired by the Pilgrims to take them to the New World they were trying to get to Virginia Two ships were supposed to make the journey The Mayflower and The Speedwell but the Speedwell was ID: 339751
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The Mayflower and the Pilgrims
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The Mayflower Ship
The Mayflower ship was captained and owned by Christopher Jones.Jones was hired by the Pilgrims to take them to the New World – they were trying to get to Virginia.
Two ships were supposed to make the journey – The Mayflower and The Speedwell, but the Speedwell was so leaky they left it behind.Slide3
The Pilgrims Video — History.comSlide4
Inside the Mayflower
Forecastle
This is where the crew's meals were cooked, and where the crew's food and supplies were stored.
Poop House
T
he living quarters for the ship's master, Christopher Jones.
Cabin
This was the general sleeping quarters for the Mayflower's twenty or thirty crewmembers. The crew slept in shifts, so not everyone was sleeping in the room at the same time.Steerage RoomThis is where the ship's pilot (John Clark, primarily) steered the Mayflower. Slide5
Gun Room
This is where the powder, shot, and other supplies were stored for the ship's guns and cannons.Gun Deck
The gun deck is where the cannon were located.
On
the Mayflower, it is where the majority of the passengers lived. They built their own makeshift cabins within this area
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Cargo Hold
This is where the Pilgrims stored their cargo of food, drink, tools, and supplies. Slide6
The Voyage
The Pilgrims left England on September 6, 1620.The voyage took 66 days. (And after trying three times to leave.)
There were “saints” – people who were leaving for religious reasons, and “strangers”, - who left for other reasons.
Cape Cod was sighted on November 9, 1620.
The first half of the journey was non-eventful – just seasickness!
But in October, they got caught in some Atlantic Ocean storms and they pushed them towards Cape Cod. They were almost shipwrecked!
They never landed in Virginia! They landed in Cape Cod.
They chose to land in a rocky harbor called Plymouth.Slide7
The Pilgrims
The story of the Pilgrims starts in England.
They wanted to “separate” from the Church of England and were called “Separatists”.
They often faced persecution because of their beliefs. King James wanted them to leave England.
William Bradford
was the leader of a group of separatists who wanted to leave England and travel to Virginia. These people became the Pilgrims.
102 Pilgrims traveled on the Mayflower to the New World.Slide8
The Pilgrims
King James threatened the Pilgrims to leave England – “to harry them out of the land or do worse”.Slide9
The First Thanksgiving: Journey on the MayflowerSlide10
The Mayflower Compact
Before they landed at Plymouth, the Pilgrims decided they needed a plan for government.They created the “Mayflower Compact” – which made “just and equal laws…for the general good of the colony.”
All adult males signed the compact. Women could not participate.
The Mayflower Compact was an important step to self-government in the colonies.Slide11
Primary Source: The Mayflower CompactSlide12
Part of the Mayflower Compact
“We covenant together to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.”-covenant and compact mean agreement or contractSlide13
Some historians think the Pilgrims missed Virginia on purpose, not wanting to settle in place where the Church of England has influence.
The strangers wanted to join an established colony to make their fortunes.By signing the compact, both saints and strangers agreed to ruled by “just and equal laws.”Slide14
The saints (who left England for religious reasons) and the strangers (who left to make their fortunes, find land, etc.) did not always get along well.
When the ship landed in Plymouth instead of Virginia – the strangers threatened an uprising.To ensure cooperation of all the colonists, and to make sure the colony survived, all the passengers agreed to enact just and equal laws and obey them.Slide15
Questions
Why was the Mayflower Compact necessary?What kind of laws did the passengers commit to obeying?Slide16
In the New Colony
They arrived during the winter.In the first three months of the colony, half the settlers died. Life was very hard.
In the spring, an American Indian named “Samoset” walked into their colony and called out, “Welcome Englishmen!”
He had learned English from fishermen and traders. Slide17
Wampanoag People
Samoset told the colonists about another American Indian called Squanto.Squanto had been sold into slavery in Spain.
He escaped and learned English and now lived with the Wampanoag people.
Acting as a translator – Squanto helped the Pilgrims make peace with the Wampanoag.
In the Fall, the Pilgrims gathered with the Wampanoag for the first Thanksgiving.Slide18
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