Warm-Up (9/15) Please pick up a copy of today’s notes from the side table and hole punch them

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

Gold God Glory

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.

A New Chance The Virginia Company organized a joint-stock company to raise money for a colony in This is a private trading company that sells shares to investors. The investors risk their money hoping to make a profit.

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 Plymouth. Because they landed out of the Virginia Company’s border, their charter did not apply.

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First Thanksgiving More than half of the English settlers died during that first winter, as a result of poor nutrition and housing that proved inadequate in the harsh weather.

Soon after the Pilgrims built their settlement, they came into contact Squanto, an English-speaking Native American. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn, which became an important crop, as well as where to fish and hunt beaver. In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims famously shared a harvest feast with the Pokanokets; the meal is now considered the basis for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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.