Plymouth

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**__William Bradford: __** William was an early governor of the Plymouth settlement. He was re-elected several times, and was the one who persuaded the council for New England to let the puritans set up the Plymouth colony and made money for the colony through the fur trade. (Tommy Bakken)

By: Hannah Beswick-Hale In 1620 a congregation of English Separatits immigrated to the New World from the port of Plymouth on the Mayflower with 102 people. They landed on Cape Cod and settled in an area just to the north, which Captain John Smith named "Plymouth". They created the Mayflower Compact, which established a civil government and proclaimed their allegience to the king. The pilgrims' first winter was brutal, half of the colonists died from malnutrition, exposure, and disease, but the colony survived. This survival is dependent on assistance frmo the Natives, like Squanto and Samoset, who taught the colonists agricultural techniques. The colonists formed an alliance with the local Wampanoag tribe. in 1622 military officer Miles Standish erstablished a semi military regime to impose discipline on the settlers, who also developed a fur trade. William Bradford was elected governor over and over again. The plantation was extremely poor, and the pilgrims clung to their belief that God had put them in the New World to create a truly Christian community. This term was put under the section entitled "Plymouth" because obviously "Plymouth Plantation" is the colonial settlement that arose in Plymouth.
 * __Plymouth Plantation:__**

__**Separatists**__- When colonies were first being started in the New World one of the main reasons for migration was to find a place to woship freely, without persecution. The main group of people that needed someplace to worship were the protestant separatists, who had separated from the Catholic Church and now were abused and attacked in Europe. They were the ones who were so desperate to find a new home that they risked everything, even their life, to find a new place to live. It was because of them that the wilderness of the New World was tamed.

The Separtist Pilgrams meeeting with native Americans in the New World. (Sam Steinfels)

The term "freeman" is often associated with the concept of indentured servitude in the colonies. To be considered a "freeman" one would have to free of an indentured servitude contract. In some colonies one would also have to be part of the church that the colony belonged to. In the case of Plymouth, one had to be elected by a court to recieve this status. The reason we decided to put freeman with Plymouth is because of the effect that this status had on Plymouth. In Plymouth only those considered to be freemen had the right to vote which effected many decisions.
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT- The Mayflower Compact was the first document in the Plymouth colony concerning the governing. This document that was signed by the original pilgrims at Plymouth was made to basically prevent strangers that settled on the territory after the pilgrims from having complete freedom to do what they pleased. The pilgrims needed to establish some sort of government to have unity and thus the Mayflower Compact was created. My partner and I decided to place this term in this category of Plymouth because the Mayflower Compact was made to set up a government in Plymouth. (Jack O'Connor and Pavel Tamas) Pilgrims writing the Mayflower Compact in Plymouth.