30 PILGRIMS QUIZ OF THE DAY #4: HITHER, WE HAVETH MORE

PILGRIMS QUIZ OF THE DAY #4: HITHER, WE HAVETH MORE PIGRIMS.
1. Explain, in your own words, what the Mayflower Compact stated and did for both the Strangers and Pilgrims.
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2. Explain what the did to bring grievances upon the Nauset: ________________________________________
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3. What do you think happened to Dorothy Bradford and why: ______________________________________
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4. Why did the leave the Nauset area and head further north? ______________________________________
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5. What disease was causing “God to visit them daily with death”? What were the symptoms?
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Answers: 1. They decided to form a new set of laws, that would become known as the Mayflower Compact.
The Pilgrims and the strangers joined together. It was supposed to be only temporary, and was a form of democracy, as all agreed to be obedient to the elected leaders. 2. They dug up their seeds, desecrated their graves,
tromped through their territory. 3. Either suicide or accident, explain what you think. 4. The Nauset had
enough of them. It was clear that they would not be able to stay peacefully there. 5. Scurvy. Teeth fall out,
bruising, fever, lower immune system.
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