USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They held many of the same Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but, unlike most other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations should separate from the English state church, which led to them being labeled Separatists (the word “Pilgrims” was not used to refer to them until several centuries later).

Detailed explanation-2: -Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough. In their view, the liturgy was still too Catholic.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Pilgrims are among the early heroes of American history, celebrated every Thanksgiving for their perseverance in the New World against great odds. To Christian conservatives, they are role models for another reason as well: They were deeply committed to their Christian faith and not afraid to say so.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth’s rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England needed to be reformed, but they elected to remain within the church, rather than separate from it.