The word means traveler in a foreign land.
Pilgrims
Pilgrims
strangers
The pilgrims were known as separatists because they did not believe in the teachings of the English church so they SEPERATED from it. They did this by coming to the Americas and starting their own colonies.
they called themselves strangers
Pilgrims were separatists.
Pilgrims
The Pilgrims
Puritans
They wanted to seperate from the English church.
Many pilgrims called themselves Puritans since they belonged to the Puritan sect known as the Separatists.
The official name for the type of people that settled in the New England Colonies were the Separatist Puritans, but we know them better as the Pilgrims. They left England to gain religious freedom for themselves and their families.