Pilgrims Research Paper

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A small group of people wanted to escape King James’ power, in which they called themselves Pilgrims. In the year of 1611, these Pilgrims were separatists who had believed that the Church of England had corrupted power. The Pilgrims had began their spiritual journey to new free religious freedom. About a decade later, a man of the name William Bradford had began a second pilgrimage to America instead of the Netherlands. The first group of Pilgrims, Leyden, had then began their new journey with another group of Pilgrims in search for new, safe, religious freedom from Holland. On their second journey, they had set sail on a old boat by the name of “The Mayflower”. Due to their stormy adventure to new freedom, they had encountered a bit of trouble