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What was a key difference between pilgrims and puritans?

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Both fled from religious persecution, but the puritans (as the root of the name suggests) want purity. But pilgrims, if I'm not mistaken, wanted freedom of worship, the exact opposite of what the puritans fled for. So in one word, religion. 
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