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Why did Squanto show the colonist how to trap fish?
a) To use the fish for fertilizer
b) To keep the fish for pets
c) To use the fish to catch bigger prey
d)

Why did Samoset say the settlers could have the land?
a) Natives thought the land was haunted
b) To avoid a war with the Puritans
c) Myles Standish threatened the Natives
d)

Why didn’t the Pilgrims continue sailing south?
a) They had run out of food
b) It was too stormy
c) The crew was too sickly
d)

Why did the Puritans help when Massasoit was kidnapped?
a) They liked Massasoit and wanted to help
b) Samoset threatened their food supply if they didn’t
c) Because of the treaty they had to help
d)

Why did John Robinson not agree with settlers killing Natives?
a) He thought it did not please God
b) He had grown close to the Natives
c) He knew the Puritans depended on the Natives for food
d)

Why were the graves of the settlers unmarked that first winter?
a) They were too sickly to properly bury the dead
b) Didn’t want the Natives to know how much their numbers were down
c) Puritans didn’t believe in marking the graves of the dead
d)

Describe the problem with where the Puritans settled.
a) Didn’t have permission to start a colony there
b) They didn’t have access to the Hudson Bay there
c) The growing season was far too short for any crops
d)

Why was John Robinson upset?
a) Because some settlers had killed some Natives
b) Because of the debt owed to the money lenders
c) Because of Myles Standish’s appointment as Governor
d)

Why did the colonist still not feel safe after the palisade was built?
a) The Jamestown settlement had recently been attacked
b) The Natives had been threatening to attack the colonist
c) The palisades hadn’t been built tall or large enough
d)

Why did the Plymouth colonist relationship with the Natives deteriorate?
a) Colonist didn’t deal fairly with Massasoit’s sons and started a war
b) Puritans were afraid after Powhatan’s massacre and built the palisades
c) Massasoit’s sons were tired of Puritans stealing their land
d)

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