Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the Pilgrim’s settlement in America.

1. Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the Pilgrim’s settlement in America.

2. Brainpop, Jr. – Thanksgiving

3. In 1607, a group of English Separatists, known as Pilgrims, moved to Holland in order to worship freely.

4. Title page of a pamphlet published by William Brewster in Leiden

5. The Pilgrims received a charter from the Virginia Company in 1620 to settle in northern Virginia. Charter – legal document giving certain rights to a person or company • The Pilgrims agreed to work for the company as indentured servants.

6. In 1620, the Pilgrims set sail for Virginia on the Mayflower, but a storm blew them instead to Massachusetts.

7. The Pilgrims developed the Mayflower Compact, which was an agreement to make laws for the benefit of the whole settlement.

9. The Pilgrims named their new settlement Plymouth.

11. More than half of the settlers died during the first winter.

12. Samoset and Squanto were Native Americans who taught the Pilgrims how to farm and trap animals.

13. The Pilgrims and their Native American friends celebrated America’s first Thanksgiving together.