Pilgrims' Voyage to America: A Fly on the Wall History
THE PILGRIMS VOYAGE WAMERICA A FLY on the WALL HISTORY BY THOMAS KINGSLEY TROUPE JLLUSTRATED BY JOMIKE TEJID0 PICTURE WINDOW BOOKS a capstone imprint
Hi'm Horace and this is my sister Maggie C we've been lies on the wall during important events in history We watched ancient Egyptians build the pyramids We saw Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb we even saw Jackie Robinson play his first major league baseball game TOD But when we were stowaways on the Mayflower Now that was one stomach turning
Maggie and I were buzzing around Southampton England in 1620 A group of people there didn't like their country's religion As a result they weren't treated very nicely Some of them decided to leave and seek a fresh start in the New World That s what people in Europe called America back then They planned a voyage aboard two ships the Speedwell and the Mayflower Why couldn't they start a church in England new or somewhere closer O O Members of the Church of England were called Protestants D Some Protestants disagreed with the ways in which the Church was run They were called Puritans Some Puritans wanted to fix the Church Those who didn t think it could be fixed were called gparatists later called Pilgrims They wanted to leave the Church completely A few of the tried that in Holland Things didn't work out Hhere
