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settlers from Jamestown tried to live in peace with Indians – need of peaceful cooperation
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Pocahontas – a daughter of a leader in Virginia (she brought food to starving settlers)
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she married an Englishman, she travelled to London, was introduced to the Queen
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the climate didn’t suit her, she died very soon in England on smallpox
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the cooperation between England and Native Americans was over
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NA couldn’t understand that the Europeans will come again and settle down (they thought that they
would come once, planted their plants and the land will be available for them next year, they didn’t know
that they would come for profit)
1620 – Puritans: 2nd group of settlers from England
those people left England looking for religious freedom
they thought that they would find refuge (útočiště)
they wanted to live life as Jesus Christ and they found it
101 Puritans set sail for 65 days
instead of in Virginia due to wind they settled at a place in the Massachusetts Bay: Plymouth
they travelled on a ship Mayflower
on the way they signed a compact:
Mayflower compact
it was signed by men (the idea was, when the father signed it, his wife and children signed it too)
society was based on the contract
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colonisers will help each other
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they will try to find a new world and society with equal conditions for everybody
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Just and Equal Law - the major is the law and no one should be above the law
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they all should live according to the law of God
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each party on the contract has to do their duty
if the duty not fulfilled – the punishment comes
pilgrim fathers = a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony
pilgrims = people who make a journey for religious reasons
the climate was quite harsh for the Puritans and with the help of NA (Wampanoag) they could survive the
winter and they thought from them how to plant crops (beans, corn etc.)