Who were the separatists that founded Plymouth colony?

Answer 1

The men and women who founded the Plymoth colony in Massachusetts, known popularly as "The Pilgrims", were Puritan Separatists who had migrated from England to Leyden, Holland, due to religious persecution. Alarmed when their children began to adapt to Dutch culture, they decided to move to America in order to preserve both their English and religious practices.

This group was known as "Separatist" because of their rejection of the English Anglican Church's similarities to Catholisism, and their action to completely separate from the church. They were extreme Puritans, who were, in turn, extreme Protestants. The general Puritan views included predestination (the belief that mankind has no choice as to where s/he is going, that God "predetermines" whether one goes to heaven or hell), that our senses are completely corrupted, making our perceptions and reasoning unreliable at best, and that all (or most) pleasure is evil.

The Pilgrims who made it to America landed in Plymouth, far from their original destination of Virginia, and just as far from the rules of either England or the London Company (a business enterprise who owned the Virgina charter at the time). There they set up a rigid, yet simple lifestyle with the help of the Mayflower Compact and friendly American natives, who helped them through that trying winter. Plymouth became one of the oldest lasting settlements in the New World.

Answer 2

Pilgrims

Answer 3

I don not know the answer.

Answer 4

Hmmm...