Chaper 3 Section 5

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Chaper 3 Section 5
Done by Sarah Reilly Ellen Frey
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European States and Religion

• It was not easy for people to practice religion
  in Europe in the 1500s.
• Christians were even divided into two groups.
  (Protestants and Roman Catholic) which caused
  many wars
• In France they even fought for 40 years and
  thousands were killed for their personal beliefs

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• The European rulers believed that they couldnt
  rule unless they supported a certain religion.
  The religion they chose was known as the
  established church.
• In the 1530s parliament passed a law that the
  English monarch was the head of the church
• If a man didnt follow the rules of the monarch
  they could be sentenced to Persecution

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Separatists Seek Religious Freedom

• A religious group in England that faced
  persecution was the Pilgrims.
• At that time the pilgrims were know as
  Separatists because they were Protestant , wanted
  to separate from the Church of England.
• In the early 1600s a group of them left for
  Leyden, which is a city in the Netherlands. Once
  there the Dutch allowed them to worship freely.

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The Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth

• a group of Separatists decided to return back to
  England/ some of the people were not Separatists
  they won a charter to set up a colony in Virginia
• in September 1620 more then 100 men, women, and
  children set sail on the Mayflower as we have
  learned
• that November the Mayflower landed in cold Cape
  Cod
• They called the new settlement Plymouth because
  they had sailed from Plymouth, England

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The Mayflower Compact

• Before going to shore the pilgrims realized
  that they would settle in the boundaries of
  Virginia.
• Not all colonists on the Mayflower were Pilgrims.
• Some of these strangers (as the Pilgrims called
  them) said that they were not bound to obey the
  Pilgrims.
• In respond the Pilgrims joined together to write
  the framework for governing their colony.
• On Nov. 11, 1620 all 41 male passengers signed
  the Mayflower Compact.
• Because of the Mayflower Compact the Pilgrims
  were left without a government, but then got
  together and made one.

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Tradition of Religious Freedom

• The pilgrims were the first of many English
  settlers to come to North America
• Many settlers who wished to worship as they
  pleased continued to believe that only their
  religious beliefs should be observed
• Most of the later English settlers set up their
  own churches
• The pilgrims still wanted to worship freely and
  that set up a precedent
• Then the Plymouth leaders announced , that any
  honest men may live with them, that will carry
  themselves peaceably and seek the common good
• In time, the idea of religious freedom for all
  would become a corner stone of American Democracy
  

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First Winter in Plymouth

• The corn was not enough to get the Pilgrims
  through the first winter ( it was too late in the
  season to plant new crops and they didnt bring
  enough food with them)
• The pilgrims also didnt have the proper shelters
  so it was hard to survive
• Most of them made bad houses out of sod, clumps
  of Earth, pits in the ground
• Nearly half of them died from either disease or
  starvation (even the first governor died)
• William Bradford was chosen to take his place he
  lead them for 36 years

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Help From Native Americans

• In the spring, the pilgrims started to plant new
  crops
• They received lots of help from the Native
  Americans ( they introduced the seeds of corn,
  beans, and pumpkins to them)
• They also taught them how to plant and water the
  seeds
• In the Fall the Pilgrims had a good harvest( they
  set aside a day to give thanks for the wonderful
  harvest)
• That day is now know as Thanksgiving in America