Why the Europeans came documents

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Why did people come to Jamestown?

1 - What area of America are these documents describing?

2 - How does the popular London play describe America in the early 1600’s?

3 – What encouragement does the poster use to get people to migrate?

4 – What are the pull factors described in the London Companies’ pamphlet?

5 – What are the push factors? 

6 – According to the pamphlet who should go to America?  Explain

1-   Who is writing, what group does he lead, and where have they settled?

2-   What is the writer asking people to do in the first paragraph?  Explain

3-   According to paragraph 2, what will prove the colony is successful? 

4-   According to paragraph 3, why must the colony succeed?  Explain

5-   According to the entire document why have these Englishmen migrated to America?  Reference specific lines in the text!

Mayflower Compact

At Sea off Cape Cod, Massachusetts  

          "In the name of God, Amen.  We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&.

          Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

          In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."

1 - Where and when was this compact created?

2 – What two authorities are the authors careful to appeal to?  Why?

3 – According to paragraph 2, what 3-4 reasons do the settlers give for establishing a colony in America?  Explain

4 – What are they promising to do when they arrive? 

5 – How will the colony be different from England?

Vocabulary

Sovereign – supreme ruler

Mutually – agree together

Covenant – contract or promise

Civil – social or public

Body Politick – organizing a group of people under a single government

Enact – put into use

Frame - outline

Constitute – put together

Ordinance – law or regulation

Offices – government jobs

Meet – something that can be used and works for our advantage