USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620 and the colonists began building their town. While houses were being built, the group continued to live on the ship.

Detailed explanation-2: -They first anchored in Provincetown Harbor. The Pilgrims-or separatists, as they called themselves-were headed to the Colony of Virginia to begin their new settlement, but ended up in Provincetown when they encountered dangerous shoals trying to make it around Cape Cod.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of English Puritans who came to be known as the Pilgrims. The core group (roughly 40% of the adults and 56% of the family groupings) were part of a congregation led by William Bradford.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. 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-5: -Traveling aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place they named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth.