USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the storybook version most of us learned in school, the Pilgrims came to America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1620. The Puritans soon followed, for the same reason.

Detailed explanation-2: -To those suffering from harassment or maltreatment in the Old World, the New World offered space to create new societies in which they could worship without interference-like the Pilgrims and Puritans who founded New England.

Detailed explanation-3: -A significant number of the early colonists of North America came to the New World to escape religious persecution in Europe. While some of the early colonies allowed freedom of religion, others, despite the reasoning for the colonists’ escape, did not.

Detailed explanation-4: -Article. Religion in Colonial America was dominated by Christianity although Judaism was practiced in small communities after 1654. Christian denominations included Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, German Pietists, Lutherans, Methodists, and Quakers among others.