Who Were the Pilgrims?
What were the two reasons why the Pilgrims left England for North America
religious freedom and economic opportunity(money and jobs)?
What problem did the Pilgrims face when they landed outside their charter area?
What had no legal government or rules?
What item was successfully produced in the Jamestown colony of Virginia?
Tobacco
What does Democracy/Self Gov/Popular Sovereignty mean?
When the political power belongs to the people
What is the Constitution
SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND
What ship did the Pilgrims travel on to the New World?
What is the Mayflower?
What did they decide to do to solve the problem?
What is created the Mayflower Compact?
Most important item that was transferred and caused loss of life from the Native Americans
DISEASES
When the political power comes from one person, a king or queen
First 10 Amendments of Constitution
BILL OF RIGHTS
What was the Pilgrims’ original destination before landing in Massachusetts?
What is the Virginia Colony?
Why is the Mayflower Compact important?
First Steps of democracy/self government in what will become the U.S.A.
What country ruled the age of exploration from 1500-1600
SPAIN
How did the Compact influence future American government?
What is it introduced democratic ideas like cooperation, equality, and rule by consent?
When the U.S. first wrote the Constitution, slavery was still present and it would remain like this until 1865, when they added or changed the Constitution. What is this
AN AMENDMENT
Why did the Pilgrims land in Massachusetts instead of their planned destination?
What is a storm that blew their ship off course?
What was the exchange of food, animals, plants, humans, diseases to and from the New World
Columbian Exchange
How is the Mayflower Compact similar to modern democracy?
What is they both rely on laws made by the people and elected leaders?
the 3 Unalienable Rights written in the DOI
LIFE, LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Name of the settlement where the Pilgrims were going to and that was also the first successful English colony in North America?
Jamestown Settlement in Virginia
Were the Pilgrims still loyal to the king, and if yes when did the loyalty stop?
Yes! It stopped when the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776
What was the name of the treaty, ratified by the pope, that split the New World in two parts, one for Spain and the other for Portugal to colonize
Treaty of Tordesillas
Why was it important for the pilgrims to write the Mayflower Compact for themselves?
What is it helped prevent chaos and made everyone agree to follow the same rules?
What does Unalienable mean
Rights that you were born with and no one can take away