from Of Plymouth Plantation

William Bradford

Name_____________________

Pre-reading

1. What are the birth and death dates for William Bradford?
2. Where was Bradford born?
3. What group did Bradford join?
4. To where did this group first flee?
5. Where was the group granted land?
6. Aboard what ship did they sail?
7. Where did they land?
8. Bradford was elected ____________________.
9. How long did Bradford hold this position?
10. What did Bradford write?
11. What time period is covered in the manuscript?
12. What happened to the second part of the manuscript?
13. When was it published entirely?
14. Where is the manuscript now?

Selection

1. On what ship had the colonists originally planned to sail?
2. What does the haughty young man want to do? What happens to him during the trip?
3. What made the people on the ship worry about their voyage?
4. Why did the people decide to continue with their voyage?
5. What is a halyard?
6. What is Cape Harbor?
7. Who are "strangers"?
8. What reasons led to the creation of the Mayflower Compact?
9. What is scurvy?
10. For what purpose is the Civil Body Politic formed?
11. For what does the compact provide?
12. How many people died? Why was the death rate so high?
13. What are fowl?
14. What reports were made to the people in England?
15. Compare the events of January and February 1621 with the events of the fall of 1621.
16. Why did the Pilgrims stop their travels near Cape Cod rather than go farther south, where their charter gave them permission to land?
17. Why did the leaders of the Pilgrims insist that every man who was going ashore first sign the Mayflower Compact?