Reasons for why colonists came to America
⇒ Religious groups, such as the Puritans wanted to
establish their religion in a new land, away from dangerous
persecution in England, which although wasn't Catholic at the
time, but still mainly adhered to the some of the Catholic rules
and thus were intolerant of other denominations
⇒ England had developed an unstable economy and as poverty
grew, English citizens chose to venture to the New World as
indentured servants (A person under contract to work for another
person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in
exchange for free passage to a new country) to start a new life
⇒ England had quite a few convicts and thus decided to move
them to America to free up space in the prisons and to make use
of them for their labor
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