Puritans were people who wanted to reform the Anglican Church;
Pilgrims or Separatists were people who wanted to leave the Anglican Church and start their own church in a new country.
Pilgrims.
Plymouth was where the Pilgrims first landed in the Americas from Holland. People in Plymouth were Puritans and had to go to church every Sunday. They were very strict about religion. If you disagreed with a Puritan teaching you were thrown out of the colony.
It refers to Plymouth, an English colony in the New World founded by Puritans, and is famous for Plymouth Rock and the origin of modern thanksgiving.
Contrary to popular belief, the Mayflower did not land at Plymouth Rock; it landed in what is now Virginia, possibly at Cape Cod. The Puritans (pilgrims) only established a colony at Plymouth.
The Puritans didn't go to Plymouth, they went to what is now Massachusetts Bay colony. They founded Plymouth, MA in 1620. Named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from whence the Mayflower set sail, it is the oldest continuously populated English settlement in the modern US.
The Puritans established the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
The Puritans landed in 1620. The Mayflower, which the Puritans were riding on, landed in Plymouth Rock colony.
1620 at Plymouth, Mass.
They landed and began Plymouth in 1620.
The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1621 and the Puritans landed in Boston in 1630.
In 1620 the ship Mayflower landed on the Massachusetts coast and began Plymouth colony.
Plymouth was where the Pilgrims first landed in the Americas from Holland. People in Plymouth were Puritans and had to go to church every Sunday. They were very strict about religion. If you disagreed with a Puritan teaching you were thrown out of the colony.
It refers to Plymouth, an English colony in the New World founded by Puritans, and is famous for Plymouth Rock and the origin of modern thanksgiving.
Contrary to popular belief, the Mayflower did not land at Plymouth Rock; it landed in what is now Virginia, possibly at Cape Cod. The Puritans (pilgrims) only established a colony at Plymouth.
Contrary to popular belief, the Mayflower did not land at Plymouth Rock; it landed in what is now Virginia, possibly at Cape Cod. The Puritans (pilgrims) only established a colony at Plymouth.
The Puritans didn't go to Plymouth, they went to what is now Massachusetts Bay colony. They founded Plymouth, MA in 1620. Named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from whence the Mayflower set sail, it is the oldest continuously populated English settlement in the modern US.
The Puritans established the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620.