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People from England came to America. They were called Pilgrims. They came to America in 1620. The Pilgrims wanted freedom of religion. They wanted to choose their own church. â¦ They came on a ship they called the Mayflower. The Pilgrims lived in a place called Plymouth.
The Pilgrims were a group of English Calvinist religious dissenters who fled persecution under Queen Elizabeth I and her successor King James I. Many of the group emigrated to America on the Mayflower (1620), the Fortune (1621), the Anne and the Little James (1623), and the second Mayflower (1629).