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Research Skills
Volume 5, Number 11, November 15, 1999
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Use the appropriate reference materials to help you answer the following questions.
1. The Pilgrims invited Massasoit to the feast that Americans often call “the first Thanksgiving.” Massasoit was a sachem. What is a sachem?
a. an Indian chief
b. a medicine
man
c. a sea
captain
d. an Indian
who has no tribe of his own
2. When did that famous feast to celebrate the harvest occur?
a. 1620
b. 1621
c. 1622
d. 1623
3. What country did many of the Pilgrims first move to in order to avoid religious persecution?
a. Netherlands
b. France
c. South Wales
d. Ireland
4. Who was the first governor of Plymouth Colony?
a. William Bradford
b. William
Brewster
c. John Carver
d. Jimmy
Carter
5. What was the Speedwell?
a. a religious
document signed by the Separatists
b. the
Pilgrims’ favorite video game
c. a method
of obtaining fresh water at sea
d. a ship
that was supposed to sail to North America with the Mayflower
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