These people were the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims formed an agreement before setting foot in America called the “Mayflower Compact.” This accord became the foundation for the Pilgrims’ eventual success and impact on the future of the colonies. Like Jamestown, the colony of Plymouth was ravaged by death in the early months of its founding. Why? One difference between their plights, however, situations, though, was the time of year in which they arrived in the New World. that Tthe men of Jamestown had arrived in the summer and had to strugglebear with working in the the heat during their work, while the Pilgrims were tortured suffered the hardship ofby the frosts of winter. upon their arrival. The Pilgrims, despite their early misfortunes, managed to establish a colony that sought to give glory to God in their …show more content…
The emigration? of Puritans to America began the Great Migration, a time in the 1630s when 16,000sixteen thousand Puritans voyaged to the Massachusetts Bay. This number of immigrants surpassed the amount of both the Jamestown colonists and the Pilgrims. The Puritans, children of the Protestant Reformation, had been persecuted by the authorities of England who refused to accept the Puritans’ ideas of institutional reform. Unlike the previous pioneers who had ventured to America, the Puritan group consisted of families that included father and mother, plus children. Because these families had been formed before their trip to America, the gender ratio was more balanced than those of the prior settlers. In the New World, these Puritan families found the religious freedom that had not been permitted in