The Pilgrims were a group of people who were Seperatists, meaning they wanted to set up their own church, a different faith from England, but in England, they were only aloud to practice the Protestant faith. So the Pilgrims, or as they called themselves, the Saints, decided to go to the New World and they landed at Plymouth. They made friends with the Native American’s, which none of the colonies in the New World had done before. The Native American’s wanted to be the Pilgrim’s friends because they wanted to use the weapons the Pilgrim’s had against rival tribes. The Pilgrim’s wanted to be friends with the Native American’s because they knew how to grow crops and fish. They were pioneers. The Pilgrim’s were pioneers because they were one
