USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Pilgrims were the first group of Puritans to sail to New England; 10 years later, a much larger group would join them there. To understand what motivated their journey, historians point back a century to King Henry VIII of England.

Detailed explanation-2: -While Pilgrims have sometimes been described as extreme Puritans, their history in America indicates substantial differences between the two. Pilgrims were separatists who first settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620 and later set up trading posts on the Kennebec River in Maine, on Cape Cod and near Windsor, Conn.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Pilgrims They felt their only option was to leave the church and create new, separate churches. Known as “separatists, ” these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they hoped to worship freely, without harassment from church authorities.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, named after the final departure port of Plymouth, Devon.

Detailed explanation-5: -Both Pilgrims and Puritans wrote poetry, sermons, diaries, and autobiographies. Many of them were literate, including women. Their culture was book-centric. Within ten years of landing in Boston, the Puritans had founded a printing press and a college (Harvard).