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Popular teaching, aka what you learned in grade school, states that the Pilgrims came for religious freedom. Wrong! Only around 40 of the 102 pilgrims were going for religion. The other 62 went in order to such for gold, adventure or for land. And if the majority went for those reasons, those are the reasons for the pilgrims going to America.
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The pilgrims wanted to move from the Netherlands to North America because?
Why did the Pilgrims want to move from the Netherlands to North Amercia
Who were some of the Pilgrims who discovered America?
The Pilgrims did not actually discover America. Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.
What month did the pilgrims land in America?
The Pilgrims landed in America in the month of thanks giving.
Why did Pilgrims move to the New World?
The Pilgrims went to North America in 1620 because they wanted to have a place to live where they could practice their own religion without being persecuted by the government
What did the Indians teach the Pilgrims during the first year in America?
They taught the pilgrims how to survive off the land in America.
