Warm-Up (9/11) Please pick up your quiz answer sheet from yesterday from the side table.

The Jamestown click

Gold Glory God

“Going… Going… Back… Back… to Virginia… Virginia (colony)”

With the success of Jamestown… (Watch video here)

The Church’s Transformation click

Search for Religious Freedom - England at this time has been Protestant since King Henry VIII will break away from the Roman Catholic Church and will form the Anglican Church of England - many people both Protestant and Catholic will become very unhappy with this change and begin to be persecuted for their beliefs.

Puritans – Protestants who looked to “reform/purify” the Anglican Church Separatists – Protestants wanting to leave and establish their own church – Separatists are who we think of today as “the Pilgrims” The Pilgrims actually only make up 35 of the original 102 passengers on the Mayflower

Pilgrims King James began persecuting them for rejecting England’s official church, Church of England and they as a result they went looking for religious freedom. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands. The Virginia Company of London arranged for the Pilgrims to settle on land within its boundaries on the eastern coast of North America.

Why? Businessmen in England: wanted to make money The men on the boat: looking for adventure and God! Most were not interested in making money.

Life aboard the Mayflower…. eos/deconstructing-history-mayflower eos/deconstructing-history-mayflower

Upon arrival…

In 1620, The Mayflower arrived off Cape Cod on the Massachusetts coast. They landed at today Plymouth. Because they landed out of the Virginia Company’s border, their charter did not apply.

The Mayflower Compact Men signed the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was a document establishing rules and order. Vowed to obey laws agreed upon for the good of the colony. Helped establish the idea of self-government and majority rule. *REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

Text of Mayflower Compact: In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, 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 honor 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 our selves 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 eleventh of November [New Style, November 21], 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 Dom John Carver William Brewster John Alden William Mullins John Craxton John Howland John Tilly Thomas Tinker John Turner Digery Priest Edmond Margeson Richard Clark Thomas English John Goodman William Bradford Isaac Allerton Samuel Fuller William White John Billington Steven Hopkins Francis Cook John Rigdale Francis Eaton Thomas Williams Peter Brown Richard Gardiner Edward Doten George Soule Edward Winslow Miles Standish Christopher Martin James Chilton Richard Warren Edward Tilly Thomas Rogers Edward Fuller Moses Fletcher Gilbert Winslow Richard Bitteridge John Allerton Edward Liester

Fact or Fiction??? MYTH: THE FIRST THANKSGIVING WAS IN 1621 AND THE PILGRIMS CELEBRATED IT EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER. Fact: To them, a thanksgiving was a religious holiday in which they would go to church and thank God for a specific event. The feast was a secular celebration, so it never would have been considered a thanksgiving in the pilgrims minds. MYTH: THE ORIGINAL THANKSGIVING FEAST TOOK PLACE ON THE FOURTH THURSDAY OF NOVEMBER. Fact: The event was based on English harvest festivals, which traditionally occurred around the 29th of September. MYTH: THE PILGRIMS WORE ONLY BLACK AND WHITE CLOTHING. THEY HAD BUCKLES ON THEIR HATS, GARMENTS, AND SHOES. Fact: Buckles did not come into fashion until later in the seventeenth century and black and white were commonly worn only on Sunday and formal occasions. Women typically dressed in red, earthy green, brown, blue, violet, and gray, while men wore clothing in white, beige, black, earthy green, and brown. MYTH: THE PILGRIMS BROUGHT FURNITURE WITH THEM ON THE MAYFLOWER Fact: The only furniture that the pilgrims brought on the Mayflower was chests and boxes. They constructed wooden furniture once they settled in Plymouth. MYTH: THE MAYFLOWER WAS HEADED FOR VIRGINIA, BUT DUE TO A NAVIGATIONAL MISTAKE IT ENDED UP IN CAPE COD MASSACHUSETTS. Fact: The Pilgrims were in fact planning to settle in Virginia, but not the modern-day state of Virginia. They were part of the Virginia Company, which had the rights to most of the eastern seaboard of the U.S. The pilgrims had intended to go to the Hudson River region in New York State, which would have been considered “Northern Virginia,” but they landed in Cape Cod instead. Treacherous seas prevented them from venturing further south.

Vocabulary Quiz 1) division of power between the state governments and the national, federal government. 2) A government receives its authority from the people. A government cannot rule without the people's consent. 3) A form of government in which limits and restrictions are placed on those in charge by a mandate. 4) A form of government where the people rule through elected representatives. 5) the division of government into 3 branches-the executive, legislative and judicial, -- with each branch having ) different powers and responsibilities. 6) Each branch has the ability to check or, control, the power of the other two branches. 7) Rights that the government is obligated to protect.