The First English Settlements in America
... Mayflower Compact. It was the first written outline for government established in what is now the United States” (Santella, 21-22). John Carver was elected the first governor. When the colonists finally settled on a place to build their settlement, they named it Plymouth after a city in England. It ...
... Mayflower Compact. It was the first written outline for government established in what is now the United States” (Santella, 21-22). John Carver was elected the first governor. When the colonists finally settled on a place to build their settlement, they named it Plymouth after a city in England. It ...
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... Settlers moved onto the lands occupied by the Powhatan Indians, and increased numbers of indentured servants came to Virginia ...
... Settlers moved onto the lands occupied by the Powhatan Indians, and increased numbers of indentured servants came to Virginia ...
New England Colony - White Plains Public Schools
... this day, MA is most educated state in the US) ...
... this day, MA is most educated state in the US) ...
Settlers and Pilgrims slides
... Lived in Holland for 10 years. Left because they felt like foreigners and wanted their children to retain an English birthright. Men and women set sail from England on September 16, 1620. Arrived at Cape Cod in early winter. Pilgrims were mostly “common” folk used to labor and hard work. Half of the ...
... Lived in Holland for 10 years. Left because they felt like foreigners and wanted their children to retain an English birthright. Men and women set sail from England on September 16, 1620. Arrived at Cape Cod in early winter. Pilgrims were mostly “common” folk used to labor and hard work. Half of the ...
Pilgrims
... The Mayflower’s passengers knew that the New World’s 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 ...
... The Mayflower’s passengers knew that the New World’s 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 ...
William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor)
William Bradford (c.1590 – 1657) was an English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland, and in Plymouth Colony. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact while aboard the Mayflower in 1620. He served as Plymouth Colony Governor five times covering about thirty years between 1621 and 1657. His journal, Of Plymouth Plantation, covered the period from 1620 to 1657 in Plymouth Colony.