What role did the pilgrims and puritans play in the decision of the colonies to declare independence from great britain?

a. these groups allowed for the development of local government centered on church teachings regarding the separation of church and state.

b. pilgrims and puritans ostracized individuals within their towns that sought loyalty to the crown.

c. these two groups’ application of local governance led to the creation of governments without input of the crown.

d. pilgrims and puritans sought to develop governments centered on the teachings of the church of england.

A. These groups allowed for the development of local government centered on church teachings regarding the separation of church and state.

Explanation:

Puritanism was a radical faction of Calvinist Protestantism, which had its origin in the English reformist period that developed during the reign of Elizabeth I. During the sixteenth century, an important sector of the Church of England felt that the definitive break with the Church Catholic had not finished producing, since much of the liturgy and beliefs remained very similar. On the other hand, Anglicanism was too close to the English royal power, obedient to its decisions and, therefore, arbitrary according to the conjunctures of the moment. Pilgrim Fathers or only Pilgrims was an English religious group formed at the end of the 16th century who, being dissatisfied with the political-religious environment in their country, decided to emigrate, first to Leiden (Holland) in 1609 and then to the New World in 1620. Fathers Pilgrims left the port of Plymouth (England) on the ship Mayflower on August 15, 1620 and, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, intended to reach the colony of Jamestown -founded in 1607- but strong storms prevented it by pushing them about 800 km more to the north, to Cape Cod, where they arrived on November 9 of the same year. Shortly after they founded Plymouth that would be the capital of the homonymous colony, which existed until 1691, year in which it was united with the Colony of the bay of Massachusetts forming the Province of the Bay of Massachusetts.