COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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to pursue religious freedom and financial opportunities
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to avoid taxation and punishment from government officials
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to escape religious persecution from foreign rulers
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to create new forms of democratic government
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Detailed explanation-1: -People who disagreed with them were often forced to leave the colony. Some of these people formed new colonies to the south of Massachusetts including Rhode Island and Connecticut. Roger Williams was a Puritan religious leader who believed that the government should be separate from the church.
Detailed explanation-2: -These well-to-do Puritans and many thousands more left their English homes not to establish a land of religious freedom, but to practice their own religion without persecution. Puritan New England offered them the opportunity to live as they believed the Bible demanded.
Detailed explanation-3: -Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony to provide a safe religious haven for Puritans only. Explanation: Puritans of the Massachusetts colony to purified the England church to return from Europe with a new and improved religion.
Detailed explanation-4: -As dissidents, they sought religious freedom and economic opportunities in distant lands. They were religious people with a strong piety and a desire to establish a holy commonwealth of people who would carry out God’s will on earth.