The Pilgrims and Plymouth Plantation

A Virtual TourBy Cheryl Romano

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Who are the Pilgrims??

• The Pilgrims were good-natured, fun-loving people who loved life and insisted on the freedom of choice.

• It was the Pilgrims who established Plymouth Colony. It was the Pilgrims who celebrated that first Thanksgiving with the Indians. It was the Pilgrims who brought our American principles of democratic government into being.

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Why Did the Pilgrims Come to America??

• There was no freedom to choose what a person believed or how he could worship in England.

• Anyone who objected to the beliefs of the state church or the forms of the church services could be arrested, questioned and thrown into prison.

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How Did the Pilgrims Come To America?

• By Boat• The Mayflower made

her final departure from Plymouth, England, on September 6/16, 1620, with 102 passengers aboard.

Mayflower Information

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What Did People Do on the Mayflower??

• A day's activities might be as follows: – Wake up, put away the bedding – Prayers – Breakfast – In good weather, activities like reading, games, exercise

on deck – Cooking by the women in good weather – Dinner (noon meal) – Activities similar to the morning – Supper – Prayers – Sleep

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What Did the Pilgrims Eat On Board the Mayflower??

• The foods they ate on board-salted meat and fish, peas, beans, beer, and hard cheese.

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What Did the Pilgrims Bring on Board the Mayflower?

• PetsDogs

• Provisions (Food to live on when they reached America)– Fine wheat flour, Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes,

Cinnamon. Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland Cheese, Wine Vinegar, Fine Wines, Pure water, Lemon Juice [for Scurvy], Oatmeal, Bacon, Beef, packed in vinegar, and Legs of Mutton, minced and stewed.

– TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS: • Marmelade and Almonds

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What Did Pilgrims Wear?

Although the men occasionally wore black or gray on days of worship, the everyday dress was greatly influenced by the colorful clothing of the Dutch of that period, employing colors such as red, brown, blue, green, yellow

and purple. Clothing

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Creating A Home• The Pilgrims explored Plymouth and found some

interesting things, such as springs where they could get water.

• The first time that the Pilgrims met the Native Americans, they fought, so the Pilgrims decided to take their families and move down the shore to create homes

• The Pilgrims ended up in New Plymouth, where they built a common house for everyone and tried to plant crops

• Due to the harsh winter and living conditions, “The Great Sickness” killed many Pilgrims

• Finally, a Native American named Samoset came down to meet the Pilgrims, he was very friendly, and he introduced them to Squanto, another Native American, and Native Americans of the Massasoit tribe

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Corn Hill

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Spring Where Water Was Found

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Pilgrims exploring an inlet. An inlet is a narrow passage of water, found between two islands.

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How Did Samoset and the Wampanoags Help??

• They taught the Pilgrims how to grow crops– Crop Vocabulary

• They taught the Pilgrims how to make tools

• They taught the Pilgrims about building shelters

• The Wampanoag People also gathered a number of wild fruits, nuts, vegetables and herbs

• They showed the Pilgrims which herbs and roots would make medicine for sick people

• They taught the Pilgrims how to preserve foods

• The men hunted large game such as deer, bear, and occasionally moose

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The Pilgrims had much to celebrate, they had built homes in the wilderness, they had raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, they were at peace with their Native American neighbors. They had beaten the odds and it was time to celebrate.    The Pilgrim Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans. They invited Squanto and the other Indians to join them in their celebration. Their chief, Massasoit, and 90 braves came to the celebration which lasted for 3 days. They played games, ran races, marched and played drums. The Indians demonstrated their skills with the bow and arrow and the Pilgrims demonstrated their musket skills. Exactly when the festival took place is uncertain, but it is believed the celebration took place in mid-October.

The First Thanksgiving

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What Did They Eat At the First Thanksgiving?

For three days the Pilgrims and their Indian guests gorged themselves on venison, roast duck, goose and turkey, clams and other shell-fish, succulent eels, corn bread, hasty pudding, leeks and water-cress, with wild plums and dried berries as dessert, all washed down with wine made of the wild grape. The affair was more like an out-door barbeque for the entire population, than a family reunion dinner.

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Let’s Compare…

• How is your Thanksgiving alike and different from the First Thanksgiving??

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References

The Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony

Thanksgiving on the Net

Plymouth Plantation