USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Pilgrims moved to the Netherlands around 1607-08. They lived in Leiden, Holland, a city of 30, 000 inhabitants, residing in small houses behind the “Kloksteeg” opposite the Pieterskerk.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Mayflower pilgrims were members of a Puritan sect within the Church of England known as separatists. At the time there were two types of puritans within the Church of England: separatists and non-separatists. Separatists felt that the Church of England was too corrupt to save and decided to separate from it.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Wampanoag people, the “People of the First Light, ” are responsible for saving the Pilgrims from starvation and death during the harsh winter of 1620–21.

Detailed explanation-5: -’Pilgrim’ became (by the early 1800s at least) the popular term applied to all the Mayflower passengers-and even to other people arriving in Plymouth in those early years-so that the English people who settled Plymouth in the 1620s are generally called the Pilgrims.