USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Thirty-five of the Pilgrims were members of the radical English Separatist Church, who traveled to America to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, which they found corrupt. Ten years earlier, English persecution had led a group of Separatists to flee to Holland in search of religious freedom.

Detailed explanation-2: -The much-ballyhooed arrival of the Pilgrims and Puritans in New England in the early 1600s was indeed a response to persecution that these religious dissenters had experienced in England.

Detailed explanation-3: -And it begins with the pilgrims, who were Puritan Separatists, fleeing the Church of England, in search of a land where they could be religiously free.

Detailed explanation-4: -Before ever setting foot in North America, the Pilgrims spent several years living in Holland. Led by William Brewster and John Robinson, the group initially fled to Amsterdam in 1608 to escape religious persecution for holding clandestine services that were not sanctioned by the Church of England.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many colonists came to America from England to escape religious persecution during the reign of King James I (r.