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Social Studies - The Pilgrims and the Mayflower
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The
English ship the Mayflower carried the Separatist Puritans, later known
as pilgrims, to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620.
| Plymouth: The Mayflower | |
| Information about the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled. | |
| Plymouth: Its History and People | |
| Plymouth is a town in southeastern Massachusetts, on Plymouth Bay, about 55 km (34 mi) southeast of Boston. The seat of Plymouth County, it was the site of the first permanent European settlement in New England; it is now a fishing and tourist center with ship-related industries and cranberry-packing houses. | |
| Mayflower History | |
| Resources to research the ship and its passengers. | |
| History of the Mayflower | |
| The Pilgrims were a group of English people who came to America seeking religious freedom during the reign of King James I. | |
| A Brief History of the Pilgrims | |
| The present state of Massachusetts, known legally as a commonwealth, was explored in the late 16th and early 17th centuries but was not permanently settled until the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth in 1620. These first permanent settlers in Massachusetts, however, were not fortune hunters but a religious group, whose first landfall was Cape Cod rather than their original Virginia destination. In December 1620 they landed at Plymouth, where they established a colony according to terms drawn up in the Mayflower Compact before debarking. | |
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