The religious group that settled in the New England region of the Americas in the 17th century was known as "the Puritans. " Dissenting strongly from the established Church of England in their home-country, these Puritans sought a place wherein they could live and worship exactly as their faith directed them.
Separatist calling themselves Pilgrims, established a settlement at Plymouth, Mass.
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The Plymouth Colony, consisting of Pilgrims, was a famous group that settled early in the United States in order to seek religious freedom. The group would eventually expand to become the United States of America.
The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony. The Puritans were the group that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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the Pilgrims established Plymouth.
The religious group known as the Pilgrims sought religious freedom from the Church of England.They had sought and secured a charter from King James to have a colony in the New World possessions of Great Britain. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, but due to storms, mis-navigated their direction. Their ship was the Mayflower, and instead of landing far to the south, they ended up on the coast near what is now the city of Boston, in 1620. They called their settlement Plymouth.
pilgrims
Plymouth Colony was settled by a group of Puritans that had broken away from the Church of England. They were known as the Pilgrims.
Pilgrims
The Plymouth Colony, consisting of Pilgrims, was a famous group that settled early in the United States in order to seek religious freedom. The group would eventually expand to become the United States of America.
The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony. The Puritans were the group that settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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the Pilgrims established Plymouth.
The religious group known as the Pilgrims sought religious freedom from the Church of England.They had sought and secured a charter from King James to have a colony in the New World possessions of Great Britain. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, but due to storms, mis-navigated their direction. Their ship was the Mayflower, and instead of landing far to the south, they ended up on the coast near what is now the city of Boston, in 1620. They called their settlement Plymouth.
The Mayflower Compact was the governing document the Pilgrims used to establish the Plymouth Colony which was in Massachusetts. Jamestown was in Virginia and was not settled by the "Pilgrims." It was settled by a group of entrpreneurs known as the Virginia Company to make money, not a group in search of religious freedom like the Pilgrims/Puritans.
English Separatists founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. English Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Each group of settlers created a community based on religious beliefs