Question

Besides the separatists who also sailed on the mayflower what were they called and why

Answer 1

The Separatist sects of Puritans, later on to be called Pilgrims, were to sail across the Atlantic aboard a ship, the Mayflower in 1620.

Answer 2

Protestants or Pilgrims

Step-by-step explanation:

The Mayflower was a merchant ship that sailed from England to the New World. The ship carried 102 passengers that were called Protestant Separatists or also Pilgrims.

The Pilgrims were people that were religiously persecuted in England for not pledging allegiance to the Church of England, they pointed a series of problems within the Church and did not agree with the fact that it was still very much connected to the Catholic Church. They fled to America looking for a place they would practice their faith freely.