The document summarizes the journey and founding of Plymouth colony by the Pilgrims in 1620. It describes how the Pilgrims faced religious persecution in England and sought religious freedom, so they traveled on the Mayflower to settle in Virginia but ended up landing much further north in Massachusetts due to storms. They survived a difficult first winter with help from the Native Americans Squanto and Samoset and held a harvest celebration that became Thanksgiving.

1. Plymouth 1620
Pilgrims and Puritans

2. What are we learning today?
Today, we are learning about another group that
came to the New World from England in 1620.
This group that we will learn about today is the
Pilgrims.

3. Pilgrims Come to America
In the mid 1600s, a religious group called the
Separatists tried to separate from the church of
England. They wanted religious freedom.

4. You are forbidden to
worship anything
other than the what
the church of
England says you can

5. I want to worship
as I please

6. Pilgrims Upset With The King
Religion was a big deal in England and the King
of England punished people who did not follow
the official church. The separatists who wanted to
separate from the church of England were
forbidden to worship in public. If they did they
could be arrested, beaten or even sentenced to
death.

7. Pilgrims Try to Escape England
The Pilgrims were a part of the Separatists.
They were tired of the harsh treatment and
wanted to escape England. They wanted to be
able to practice their religion freely.

8. Pilgrims ask to go to Virginia
Eventually the Pilgrims went to the Virginia
Company and asked if they could settle in
America and start their own colony under the
protection of the Virginia Company.
Can we come to
America to practice
our religion?

9. The Virginia Company says Ok
In 1618, the Virginia Company agreed to help the
Pilgrims get to America and settle in on the
company’s land. I don’t care if the
pilgrims come to
America

10. The Mayflower
After two years and several setbacks, the
Pilgrims finally boarded a ship called the
Mayflower that was to take them across the
Atlantic Ocean to America.

13. The Mayflower Deconstructed
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14. The Mayflower
Originally there were two ships the Mayflower and
the smaller Speedwell. However, after a few
miles out they had to turn back because
something was wrong with the Speedwell.
Everyone decided to get on the Mayflower
making it crowded, dark and cramped.

16. What Did the Pilgrims Eat?
During the Mayflower's voyage, the Pilgrims
main diet would have consisted primarily (mostly)
of hard biscuits, salt pork, dried meats including
cow tongue, various pickled foods, oatmeal and
other cereal grains, and fish. The primary
beverage for everyone, including children, was
beer.

18. Aboard the Ship
Not only was the ship dark, wet and cramped.
The ceiling of the ship was only about 5 feet tall
so everyone had to hunch over. People went to
the bathroom in buckets and often got sea sick.
For two months, the Pilgrims lived like this
aboard the Mayflower.

21. Atlantic Storms Hit
The first month across the Atlantic went fairly
smoothly. However, during late November
several Atlantic storms began to hit the
Mayflower. The strong winds tore through the
sails and pushed the Mayflower far north of its
intended location.

25. Off Course
• On the early morning of November 9, 1620,
the Mayflower's crew spotted land. It was the
first land they had seen in more than two
months. However, the Pilgrims aboard the ship
knew that they had landed outside the limits of
the Virginia Company’s charter. Oh no…this isn’t
where we
wanted to land

26. The Mayflower Compact
Since the Pilgrims knew they needed a way to
keep order and create laws the men aboard the
ship developed what has become known as the
Mayflower Compact.
We need to
agree on rules

27. The Mayflower Compact
The men created the compact (contract) by
writing down on a large sheet of paper simple
rules/laws that they all could all agree upon.
They all agreed that these laws were for the
good of the colony and must be obeyed. All 41
men signed the Mayflower compact.

28. By signing your name you are
agreeing to obey these rules and
do whatever is best for the
Plymouth colony

29. The Mayflower Compact
The mayflower compact is important because it
established the idea of self government and
majority rule. Self government is where people
create laws for themselves and majority rule is
the idea that whatever the most people want is
what will happen.
But I don’t
want to…
Too bad… We are
the majority

33. The Pilgrims Land
The Pilgrims had landed in Cape Cod
Massachusetts, an area that John Smith had
mapped and named New England. The Pilgrims
named their new colony (town) Plymouth after
the town they left in England.

34. We will call this
Plymouth
Thank God we
can have
religious
freedom

35. Building Plymouth 1620
Right away the Pilgrims went to work building
their colony in Massachusetts. However the soil
was poor and rocky and little grew there.
Furthermore, the harsh New England winter
came quickly. The Pilgrims were not ready.

36. Plymouth, Massachusetts 1620

37. Starving Time in Plymouth
Like the early settlers in Jamestown, the
Pilgrims at Plymouth also went through a
starving time. Everyone was sick, weak, cold
and hungry. Half of the group had died by
spring.

38. Samoset
However, in the Spring the Pilgrims were
approached by an English speaking Native
American named Samoset. Samoset introduced
the Pilgrims to Squanto, who also spoke English.

39. I speak English
and we can help
you

40. Squanto
Squanto acted as an interpreter between the
Pilgrims and his tribe the Massasiot. The Native
Americans began sharing their agricultural
(farming) practices. In exchange for teaching the
Pilgrims how to plant crops, hunt and fish, the
Pilgrims traded what little they had.

41. We have to teach these
pilgrims our agricultural
(farming) practices

42. Thank you for
showing us what to do

43. The Pilgrims Celebrate
Sometime in the fall, the Pilgrims held a
celebration for the blessings of a good harvest.
Thanks to Squanto, the Pilgrims were surviving in
their new environment. This celebration would
become known as Thanksgiving.

47. Path Across the Atlantic
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