Pilgrim Study Voyage of the Mayflower

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Pilgrim StudyVoyage of the Mayflower
Coming to the New World
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Table of contents

• The Ship
• Conditions
• Sleeping Quarters
• The Galley
• Passengers
• The New World
• M
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The Ship- Crossing the Atlantic Ocean
Do you know the parts of the Mayflower? The
numbers, 1-16, label each part of the ship. Talk
about the parts or write them down. Check your
knowledge on the Answer Key Slide.
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Conditions

• The Mayflower traveled for 10 weeks over the
  Atlantic Ocean to seek religious freedom and the
  opportunities of the New World.
• They traveled from England to in the United
  States.
• During the month of November the sea was rough
  and cold. Once passengers were wet, there was no
  getting dry. Disease set in.

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Sleeping Quarters

• Because there were 102 passengers on the
  Mayflower, it was crowded. Passengers slept on
  hammocks if they were lucky, or the floor.
• If a passenger was lucky enough to have a
  mattress, it was full of straw.
• With tight quarters, disease was easily spread.
• With no bathrooms, chamber pots were used and
  thrown overboard when full.
• Passengers slept below deck.

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The Galley

• The Galley was the name for the kitchen.
• Because the trip was longer than expected, food
  supplies dwindled.
• Because there was no refrigeration, food didnt
  last as long aboard the ship.
• The Galley was a small area for cooking for 102
  people.

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Passengers

• 102 passengers on board
• 30 were crew members
• Women and children were on board
• One baby was born, named Oceanus
• One passenger died
• Animals such as cows and chickens provided food
  while on board and in the New World.
• Two dogs and some cats were on board, which
  helped to eat the rats and
  mice.

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Arriving in the New World

• With fighting on board, passengers decided that
  they needed to create rules. This document,
  created by men only, was called the Mayflower
  Compact.
• They anchored on the coast of Cape Cod, in
  Massachusetts.
• The Pilgrims needed to create a community and
  housing quickly with the winter months ahead.
• Native Americans inhabited the land and slowly
  created relationships with the Pilgrims, teaching
  them the ways of the land.
• Eventually, the Native Americans would die of the
  diseases the Pilgrims brought with them.

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The Mayflower Compact
Mayflower Compact What is it? The Mayflower
Compact is a written agreement composed by a
consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New
Plymouth in November of 1620. They had traveled
across the ocean on the ship Mayflower which was
anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor near
Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Mayflower Compact
was drawn up with fair and equal laws, for the
general good of the settlement and with the will
of the majority. The Mayflowers passengers knew
that the New Worlds earlier settlers failed due
to a lack of government. They hashed out the
content and eventually composed the Compact for
the sake of their own survival. All 41 of the
adult male members on the Mayflower signed the
Compact. Being the first written laws for the new
land, the Compact determined authority within the
settlement and was the observed as such until
1691. This established that the colony (mostly
persecuted Separatists), was to be free of
English law. It was devised to set up a
government from within themselves and was written
by those to be governed. Mayflower Compact
What did it say? The original document is said to
have been lost, but the writings of William
Bradfords journal Of Plymouth Plantation and in
Edward Winslows Mourts Relation A Journal of
the Pilgrims at Plymouth are in agreement and
accepted as accurate. The Mayflower Compact
reads "In the name of God, Amen. We, whose
names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our
dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of
God, of England, France and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, e. Having undertaken for
the Glory of God, and Advancement of the
Christian Faith, and the Honour 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
ourselves together into a civil Body Politick,
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 hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod
the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and
Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the
fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
Information is from the website,
allabouthistory.org
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Answer Key