SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
MAYFLOWER COMPACT DEFINITION SUMMARY HISTORY
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territories given to them by James I
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territo ries given to them by Elizabeth II
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Pilgrims intended to land in Northern Virginia and the Hudson River (today New York) was their intended destination.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contents. Some 100 people, many of them seeking religious freedom in the New World, set sail from England on the Mayflower in September 1620. That November, the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nearly 40 of these passengers were Protestant Separatists-they called themselves “Saints”-who hoped to establish a new church in the so-called New World. Today, we often refer to the colonists who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower as “Pilgrims.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Things the Pilgrims Brought on the Mayflower Biscuit, beer, salt, (dried) beef, salt pork, oats, peas, wheat, butter, sweet oil, mustard seed, ling or cod fish, “good cheese", vinegar, aqua-vitae, rice, bacon, cider.