USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in the period of English Puritans to Massachusetts and the Caribbean, especially Barbados. They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were mainly motivated for freedom to practice their beliefs.

Detailed explanation-2: -But at first life was a constant struggle. By 1630, the population of the Plymouth colony was only 300. Within a decade, however, because of a great migration of Puritans from England who were escaping the persecution of Charles I, it leaped to about 3, 000.

Detailed explanation-3: -Puritans went chiefly to New England, but small numbers went to other English colonies up and down the Atlantic. Puritans played the leading roles in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, the Saybrook Colony in 1635, the Connecticut Colony in 1636, and the New Haven Colony in 1638.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Pilgrims were the first group of Puritans to sail to New England; 10 years later, a much larger group would join them there. To understand what motivated their journey, historians point back a century to King Henry VIII of England.