USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They wanted religious freedom and economic opportunity. The United States is a country where individual rights and self-government are important. This has always been true. Colonists first came to America for more freedom.

Detailed explanation-2: -The pilgrims left their homes for the New World because their religious beliefs clashed with those of the Church of England, which was led by King James I of England (r. 1603-1625 CE) who had the power to arrest, imprison, and execute those he felt were spreading seditious ideologies.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The religious motivations in establishing the Plymouth Colony was to secure religious freedom for the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were Protestant dissenters within the Church of England. They believed that the Church of England retained many aspects of Catholicism and did not adhere fully to the scriptures.

Detailed explanation-5: -No church taxes, no prohibited beliefs or practices. Other Protestants, Williams pointed out, wanted “their own souls only to be free.” And that was true in Plymouth Colony, which like the Bay Colony established a single religious option in each town.