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They were a mixture of Puritans and Separatists. These groups were Protestant Christians that were opposed to the Anglican state church of England.
Catholics settled the colony of Maryland to escape the persecution in England. England had become anti-Catholic after King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church to establish his own church.
they established the Plymouth colony
Pilgrims were Puritans, albeit a specific kind. In the 17th century, many people felt that the Church of England should get rid of all traces of the Roman Catholic Church, which it had broken away from, that the Church should be "purified". These people were called Puritans. There was a group of Puritans who were even more extreme, they said that the Church of England was too corrupt to ever be purified, and that Puritans should completely separate from it. These people were called separatists. A group of separatists finally left the Church and England altogether, and moved to Holland. However, they feared that their children were becoming "too Dutch", so they left Holland and set up a colony in the New World, Plymouth. These people were the Pilgrims.
The Plymouth Colony was founded by the pilgrims or separatists.
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religious separatists.
Plymouth Colony was settled by a group of Puritans that had broken away from the Church of England. They were known as the Pilgrims.
They were a mixture of Puritans and Separatists. These groups were Protestant Christians that were opposed to the Anglican state church of England.
Separatist Puritans believed in completely separating from the Church of England and forming their own independent congregations. Non-separatist Puritans, on the other hand, wanted to reform the Church of England from within. Ultimately, the Pilgrims who settled in Plymouth were Separatist Puritans, while the Puritans who settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony were mostly non-separatists.
separatists
The Pilgrims from the Church of New England settled in Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts in 1620. They established the colony after fleeing religious persecution in England and seeking religious freedom.
They were known as the Separatists.
the pilgrims, religious separatists,arrived in Nov.& settled at Plymouth.They were seeking freedom from religious persecution
The goals of the Separatists who settled in Plymouth Colony in 1620 were to find a safe place to escape the persecution they had faced in Europe. They came to the New World in search of a new life.
English Separatists founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. English Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
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