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Pilgrims, Puritans, Saints, Strangers

Pilgrims, Puritans, Saints, Strangers. By: Denise Bell. Pilgrims. Ship: The Mayflower Leader: William Bradford and William Brewster Home: Scrooby, England Wanted: a complete break with the Church of England Originally went to Leyden, Holland Landed at: Cape Cod, Massachusetts

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Pilgrims, Puritans, Saints, Strangers

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  1. Pilgrims, Puritans, Saints, Strangers By: Denise Bell

  2. Pilgrims • Ship: The Mayflower • Leader: William Bradford and William Brewster • Home: Scrooby, England • Wanted: a complete break with the Church of England • Originally went to Leyden, Holland • Landed at: Cape Cod, Massachusetts • Year arrive: 1620 • Thanksgiving • People who came: • Saints-religious freedom • Strangers-adventure, in trouble

  3. Puritans • Ship: The Arbella • Leader: John Winthrop • Home: England-Cambridge University • Wanted: to purify the Church of England • Landed at: Plymouth, Massachusetts • Year arrived: 1630 • Routine: work, eat, sleep, pray • People who came: • Wealthy • Well educated • Strong connections at home

  4. Pilgrims/1620 Puritans/1630 Ship: Mayflower Leader: William Bradford/Wlm Brewster Want: complete break w/ the Church of England People who came: Saints-religious freedom-Separate from the Church of England Strangers-adventure, in trouble Left ALL behind Ship: Arbella Leader: John Winthrop Want: Purify the Church of England People who came: Wealthy Well educated Strong connections at home, business, relatives

  5. John Winthrop • A lawyer who lost his job because of his religion. • In 1630 he came to America aboard the ship the Arbella.

  6. Touro Synagogue • First permanent Jewish house of worship in America • 1763 • Rhode Island

  7. Chattel: personal, movable property • A Nyer “I believe women should be kept as chattel. Women are as animals and should be treated as such. There is a _____ good reason women were not allowed to vote until 80 years ago.” 2004

  8. Plimoth Plantation • As more and more left England to find religious freedom the numbers of Englishmen in the colony grew. • GREAT MIGRATION

  9. Gallows • Mary Dyer hanged June 1, 1660 on Boston Common for refusing to leave Massachusetts to practice her religion. • People took off work to go and watch. • They cheered, jeered and partied

  10. City on a Hill • Puritan Massachusetts was expected to stand tall as a symbol to the rest of the world. Governor Winthrop said “The eyes of all people are upon us.” • Puritans came to the New World to try to live close to perfect lives.

  11. “Perfect lives” • Puritans need a way to explain the fact that bad things sometime happen… ship wrecks, poor crop years, no rain, too much rain, houses burn down. • The ONLY way to explain these occurrences was the existence of witches.

  12. Witches • The whole world believed in witches. • People thought that if you wanted to make a deal with the devil you could do it and then torment people and fly on broomsticks, squeeze through key holes or become invisible. • Pope ordered 500 witches burned in Switzerland. • King James of England wrote a book about witches. • Warts, pimples and moles were signs of being a witch.

  13. Tituba • Tituba is a slave from the West Indies living in the home of Rev. Parris who told stories of the devil and witches and voodoo.

  14. Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder General • In 1644 Hopkins was responsible for the execution of between 200 and 400 witches. • His job was to cleanse towns of all sorcery, to accomplish this he used sleep deprivation. • Daily wages being 2.5 pence, Hopkins earned 15 to 25 pounds per town cleansed. (about 250 dollars)

  15. John Winthrop goes to England to plead for the lives of Quakers in the colonies. • John Winthrop appears at the court of King Charles II wearing a ring that had once belonged to Anne of Denmark, who happened to be Charles grandmother. • The King, happy to have his grandmothers ring, gave a charter to allow the settlement of Connecticut.

  16. Hornbook • Children’s book • Taught children how to read by using verses from the Bible • Puritan children learned to read Latin and Greek, a few learned Hebrew too.

  17. Harvard • 1636 founded • Puritans founded Harvard to train ministers.

  18. Metacom • Upon Massasoit’s death his son Metacom becomes king. • King Phillip’s war follows • Metacom is killed and beheaded. • His severed head is displayed hung on the fort at Plymouth where it remained for the next 25 years.

  19. Leyden, Holland (The Netherlands) • To escape religious persecution in England the Separatists left Scrooby, England and moved to Holland where they had been promised religious freedom.

  20. Scurvy • A disease resulting from lack of vitamin C. It makes people bleed easily and causes their teeth to fall out.

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