【正确答案】 In England, there had been a group of people called Puritans who had broken away from the Church of England and formed their own churches. Later they fled to Holland to escape the persecution in their native land. Several years passed when they were again threatened by religious suppression and they thought of moving, and this time to America. They began to call themselves Pilgrims because of their wanderings in search of religious freedom. In 1620, they crossed the Atlantic in the ship Mayflower and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts.