What was the main difference between pilgrims and puritans?

Question: What was the main difference between pilgrims and puritans!?

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Pilgrims, or Pilgrim Fathers, is a name commonly applied to the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts!. Their leadership came from a religious congregation who had fled a volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm of the Netherlands to preserve their religion!. Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America!. The colonists faced a lengthy series of challenges, from bureaucracy, impatient investors and internal conflicts to sabotage, storms, disease, and uncertain relations with the indigenous people!. The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement in what was to become the United States of America, the first being Jamestown, Virginia, which was founded in 1607!. Their story has become a central theme of the history and culture of the United States!.

A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was any person seeking "purity" of worship and doctrine!.

Puritans who felt that the Reformation of the Church of England had not gone far enough but who remained within the Church of England advocating further reforms are known as non-separating Puritans!. (The Non-Separating Puritans differed among themselves about how much further reformation was necessary!.) Those who felt that the Church of England was so corrupt that true Christians should separate from it altogether are known as separating Puritans or simply as Separatists!.

Later groups are called "puritan", not necessarily favourably, by comparison to these low church Anglicans and Calvinistic Non-conformists!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The biggest difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans is that the Puritans had no intention of breaking with the Anglican church and the Pilgrims sole reason for coming to America was to do just that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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