Compare And Contrast Puritans Vs Pilgrims

The Puritans were settlers that took a voyage to the new world to have the religious freedom that they didn’t have in England. They made the voyage in the 16th century. “Puritanism was an under siege from the church and crown, it sent an offshoot in the third and fourth decades of the 17th century to the northern English colonies in the New World” (Puritanism). Puritans actually landed in Salem and when they begin to spread out merged with the Pilgrims, who landed in Plymouth colony. Roger Williams leads some followers away to create an even purer group of Puritans (Puritans vs. Pilgrims Video). The Puritans in America focused on purifying the Church of England’s foundation. They saw the New World as an opportunity to have religious freedom,
They didn’t understand that religious differences aren’t as easy to work around as they thought. “The Puritans came the America to purify the Churches of England’s philosophy. The Pilgrims came to make their own churches and to have total religious freedom, and to separate from the Church of England to make it a ‘better’ church”(Puritans vs. Pilgrims). “Roger Williams (one of the puritans) was so Puritan that he was to Puritan for the real Puritans kicked him out. He then took his followers and started his own group of Puritans that would take it a step farther and keep purifying the Church of England” (Puritans vs. Pilgrims). Roger Williams was also the founder of Rhode Island, so historians believe that, that’s where he settled his followers and created his colony. In conclusion the Puritans came to America for religious freedom, yet they did not exactly get what they wanted. They ran into some obstacles along the way. They had to remove some internal and external problems. They handled what they could and what they couldn’t probably shattered what they had been working on for the past couple of months. In the end the Puritans got the majority of what they