Influential People: John Alden, William Bradford, William Brewster, John Carver, Myles Standish, The Winslow Brothers,John Winthrop, John Rolfe, Pocahontas, Lord Baltimore, King James I, English Separatist Church, and The Pilgrims, John Smith, Tisquantum (Squanto), Pawtuxet Tribe
Important Events: The Mayflower Compact, The Mayflower Expedition at Cape Cod, Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony, Pilgrim Father's reach America (Provincetown Harbor, Mass), Myles Standish makes contact with Native Americans. Thanksgiving Dinner, Pilgrims separated from the church, Founding of Jamestown, First Winter in the New World, Pequot War,
Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.
