The Least You Need to Know
The Pilgrims were Puritans who left England, settling first in Holland and then in New England (at Plymouth) in 1620. Separatists were somewhat less radical Puritans who settled there (at Massachusetts Bay) beginning in 1630.
The other major English colonies were also established as havens for freedom of worship; Georgia was meant to be a utopia.
Intolerance among the Puritans and slavery in the South marred the colonies’ ideal of liberty.