SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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To find religious freedom because they were being persecuted in England because their Christian group was illegal there
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They believed that all monarchies were evil and they wanted to create a democracy in America
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There was a dangerous plague spreading through England and they wanted to escape dying from the disease
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They wanted to conquer the world and decided to start with North America
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The much-ballyhooed arrival of the Pilgrims and Puritans in New England in the early 1600s was indeed a response to persecution that these religious dissenters had experienced in England.
Detailed explanation-3: -They were less religious refugees than economic migrants. They were less religious refugees than economic migrants. When the Pilgrims set sail from Europe in 1620, several powerful reasons propelled them across the Atlantic Ocean to make new lives in America-but religious liberty was not their most pressing concern.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why Did the Pilgrims Come to America? 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.