SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS
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to farm and find gold
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to become friends with the Indians and trade
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to have a better life and have religious freedom
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to become sailors and get spices
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Detailed explanation-1: -Due to economic difficulties, as well as fears that they would lose their English language and heritage, they began to make plans to settle in the New World.
Detailed explanation-2: -The pilgrims came to America in search of religious freedom. At the time, England required its citizens to belong to the Church of England. People wanted to practice their religious beliefs freely, and so many fled to the Netherlands, where laws were more flexible.
Detailed explanation-3: -They came to explore, to make money, to spread and practice their religion freely, and to live on land of their own. The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to practice religious freedom.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thirty-five of the Pilgrims were members of the radical English Separatist Church, who traveled to America to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, which they found corrupt. Ten years earlier, English persecution had led a group of Separatists to flee to Holland in search of religious freedom.
Detailed explanation-5: -In addition, the English Pilgrims-and others in Europe-feared another attack on the Dutch Republic by Catholic Spain. Because of this, in 1620 they moved on to found the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts.