to be free and practice their own religion
the pilgrams left holland because their children was being harmed
To escape religious persecution - or so they said.
*Dont quote me on this* I think they thought the Church of England was too corrupt to save.
The United States was first settled by pilgrims (oftentimes misspelled as pilgrams). These pilgrims first came from England and quickly spread out into different colonies.
the pilgrams originally left England and moved to
Never mind I got my answer.
ENGLAND
Squanto and Samoset. Without them the Pilgrams may have not survived.
The Pilgrims left England on September 6, 1620, on a ship called the Mayflower. They arrived in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in November of the same year.
Others came for financial opportunity, but the Pilgrams came first and foremost for religious freedom.
by boat