They wanted to seperate from the English church.
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Pilgrims
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.
Massasoit was considered a friend of the Pilgrims. He was also an important ally to the Pilgrims that settled at Plymouth.
Pilgrims were separatists.
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Pilgrims
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The Pilgrims
Puritans
The word means traveler in a foreign land.
They are both separatist that left for religious freedoms the Puritans to purify the church and Pilgrims to practice there own religion.
Pilgrims
The 60 Pilgrims were looking for freedom of religion. They were discriminated against and arrested as members of the Separatist religion.
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.
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.