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Pilgrims | English people who came to live in America |
Native Americans | people who helped the Pilgrims in America |
Christopher Columbus | an explorer who came to the Americas in 1492 |
the Mayflower | the name of the Pilgrim's ship |
colony | a place where people start new homes |
13 | the number of colonies that America had |
Thanksgiving | holiday that was celebrated by Pilgrims and Native Americans |
religious freedom | being able to pray or think about God freely |
Plymouth | the name of the Pilgrim's village |
treaty | an agreement between different groups |
reasons why the Pilgrims came to America | to keep their English ways, and to have religious freedom |
Dutch | the people and language of Holland |
Holland | a small country in Europe |
the Native Americans that lived near Plymouth | the Wampanoag |
Mayflower Compact | document of rules that the Pilgrims wrote before they left the ship |
govenor | leader of the colony |
to land | to arrive by ship or airplane |
how the Wampanoag helped the Pilgrims | they taught them how to hunt deer, plant corn, and find fish |
Squanto | a Native American who helped the Pilgrims |
what the first winter was like for the pilgrims | cold with very little food; many people became sick and died |