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What was the name of the Pilgrims' ship?
Mayflower
What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
Jamestown
What year did the Pilgrims land in Plymouth?
1620
What did Squanto plant in the ground as fertilizer?
Who were the Englishmen who wanted to separate from the Church of England?
Separatists
Chief Massasoit
Who was the English settler in Jamestown who married Pocahontas?
John Rolfe
Why did the Separatists come to America?
to worship God freely (religious freedom)
What language did both Samoset and Squanto learn that would help the Pilgrims?
English
What is a list of promises kept by two groups of people?
What was the place the Pilgrims settled in 1620?
Plymouth
Where did John Smith explore and make a map of after returning to the New World from England?
New England
Why did the Separatists want to leave Holland?
Their children were forgetting the English ways.
Where was Squanto taken first when kidnapped?
Spain
Who were the Englishmen who came to Plymouth for adventure?
Strangers
Who was the first Native American to help the Pilgrims?
Samoset
Who was the captain of the ship Treasurer who kidnapped Pocahontas?
Captain Samuel Argall
What one name do we call both the Separatists and Strangers?
Pilgrims
over 50 years
What was the first form of self-government in the New World?
Mayflower Compact
Who was the first governor of Plymouth?
John Carver
Who was the chief who sold Pocahontas to Captain Argall?
Chief Japazaws
Name one way that Miles Standish helped the Pilgrims.
cooked for them
washed their clothes
nursed them when they were sick
When did Squanto say it was time to plant corn?
when the oak leaves were as big as a mouse's ear