🌍The Pilgrims and the Puritans played a significant role in the colonization of New England in the early 17th century, establishing the first permanent colonies in the region.
🗽The Pilgrims sought religious freedom and established Plymouth Colony, while the Puritans desired to live godly lives away from the rituals of the Church of England and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
💡William Bradford, a Pilgrim, helped organize the expedition to Plymouth and served as Plymouth's governor, while John Winthrop, a Puritan, led a group of Puritans and became the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
🌈Roger Williams, a dissenter from the Puritans, founded the colony of Rhode Island based on the principle of religious tolerance, while the Quakers, another group of Christians, faced persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and established Pennsylvania as a haven for religious freedom.
🤝The establishment of the Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony, and the charter granted by King Charles II for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania demonstrated early forms of self-governance and religious freedom in the New World.