USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Colonists came to America because they wanted political liberty. They wanted religious freedom and economic opportunity. The United States is a country where individual rights and self-government are important.

Detailed explanation-2: -The motivations were the desire for riches, the hope of freedom of religion or freedom from imprisonment, debt or slavery. All of these people and these reasons contributed to the Americas early settlement.

Detailed explanation-3: -America came to be seen as a land where social justice was possible-where the poor and oppressed would find opportunity and freedom, where the ambitious and adventurous could make their fortunes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Land symbolized opportunity to generations of Americans, starting with colonists who never had the chance of owning property in Europe; the vast continent gleamed in their eyes and its frontier drew them west.

Detailed explanation-5: -The British settlers came to these new lands for many reasons. Some wanted to make money or set up trade with their home country while others wanted religious freedom. In the early 1600s, the British king began establishing colonies in America.