Pilgrims

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Pilgrims
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Clothes

• Girls dressed just like their mothers, wearing
  long dresses
• Little boys wore long dresses until they were six
  years old. After that, they dressed like the men
  in pants.
• Every day except Sundays the pilgrims wore
  bright colored clothing.

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Clothes

• Men and women wore black and grey clothes on
  Sundays
• Women wore long woolen dresses, and white caps
• Men wore woolen jackets called doublets and pants
  called breeches
• Men would also wear a tall, stiff black hat

Question Do you think that the pilgrims were hot
on the Mayflower in all there layers of clothes?
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Food

• Pilgrims ate the same food on the ship, day after
  day
• Salted beef called (salt horse)
• Dry biscuits and some butter
• Dried peas and beans
• It was too dangerous to built a fire to cook
  their food so they ate cold food most of the time
• Question How would you feel if you had to eat
  the same things for months at a time?

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Chest

• The Pilgrims could only take one chest of
  belongings per family
• Pilgrims would fill their chest with
• Clothes
• Cooking utensils
• Swords or guns for protection
• Tools for building a house
• What ever did not fit in the chest would be left
  behind!
• Question What would you put in your chest?

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True or False

• Little boys wore long dresses until they were
  six years old. After that, they dressed like the
  men in pants.

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True!
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True or False

• The Pilgrims wore bright colored clothing
  everyday.

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False
Pilgrims wore bright colored clothing everyday
except Sunday. On Sunday they wore black and grey.
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True or False

• Pilgrims had a lot of different food to eat while
  on the Mayflower.

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False
The Pilgrims had little to eat and ate the same
thing everyday!