Why did the mayflower pilgrims land at plymouth? a. they wanted to escape the restrictions of their charter to be free of english rule. b. they were thrown off course and were no longer in the area specified in their charter. c. they did not want to be near the jamestown colonists or other groups settling in virginia. d. they found the climate more like that of holland, which they had grown accustomed to. e. they headed north suddenly after spotting what they thought was a spanish warship.

The correct answer is A. The Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth because they wanted to escape the restrictions of their charter to be free of English rule.

Explanation:

The Mayflower Pilgrims were a group of English puritans who left their country under pressure from King James I of England, who started a persecution to non-Anglicans. A large proportion of these Calvinist-oriented refugees took the area to Leiden in the Netherlands. A number of them sailed from Europe to America in the early 17th century to build a new life there in freedom, landing at Plymouth in 1620.

a.) a poor farmer, due to the fact that they would want to be freed from british rule.