USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -That’s what the Pilgrims did in the year 1620, on a ship called Mayflower. Mayflower set sail from England in July 1620, but it had to turn back twice because Speedwell, the ship it was traveling with, leaked. After deciding to leave the leaky Speedwell behind, Mayflower finally got underway on September 6, 1620.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nearly 40 of these passengers were Protestant Separatists-they called themselves “Saints”-who hoped to establish a new church in the so-called New World. Today, we often refer to the colonists who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower as “Pilgrims.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Mayflower, in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.

Detailed explanation-4: -In August 1620, the Mayflower left Southampton with a smaller vessel–the Speedwell–but the latter proved unseaworthy and twice was forced to return to port.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1492, three ships made the voyage over to the New World–the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria–with the largest ship, the Santa Maria, floundering and sinking to the bottom of the Caribbean.