USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of English Puritans who came to be known as the Pilgrims.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plymouth, Massachusetts, (population 492, 066) was founded in 1620 by English settlers known as Separatists, who had fled England to establish a Utopian community where they could practice their religion freely. While on board the Mayflower, they established the rules for governing the new colony.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Plymouth Colony (1620-1691 CE) was the first English settlement in the region of modern-day New England in the United States, settled by the religious separatists known as the “pilgrims” who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower in 1620 CE.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Pilgrim’ became (by the early 1800s at least) the popular term applied to all the Mayflower passengers-and even to other people arriving in Plymouth in those early years-so that the English people who settled Plymouth in the 1620s are generally called the Pilgrims.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Mayflower pilgrims were members of a Puritan sect within the Church of England known as separatists. At the time there were two types of puritans within the Church of England: separatists and non-separatists. Separatists felt that the Church of England was too corrupt to save and decided to separate from it.