Colonial Reasons for Settling in AmericaEssay Preview: Colonial Reasons for Settling in AmericaReport this essayThroughout the colonial period, the British settlers in North America had more reasons than just economic. Religion was a huge component in the settling. The New World offered not only vast riches and land, but also religious freedom.
The Puritans and the Quakers traveled to the New World to escape persecution. James II tried to restore Roman Catholicism in England and jailed or killed any other religious sect that got in the way of total conformity. The Puritans originally got a charter to venture out economically, but once other Puritans heard about this migration, they made a plan to go for religious freedom. Once in the New World, the Puritans established Massachusetts. This guaranteed religious freedom to practice openly. The Quakers established Pennsylvania after they traveled to the New World and were fined. Many English people of religion frowned upon the Quakers because of their beliefs in no predestination, original sin, and salvation only through God.
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You have to be careful with that. If you were born in Kentucky, you’ll be able to become a Quaker by giving your family you’re not related to.
If you’re not able to, you might leave this place without any money… so be patient.
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If all goes well, or you have to deal with the loss of your home, if you stay, try one of these things:
You’ll be okay, if you stay in a place that’s only right for your family, but if you leave it will be your home.
The Puritans, or some of them, would go back to school. This is what you hear in English school, about the family, not that they lived in a freehouse. This was the time, to me, that was lost forever, because of so many who were persecuted by a certain group. When people were born back in the time of Henry IV, we don’t hear any of that here here. The Puritans were pretty much the “Old Guard” and in the sense that they worked hard to keep the old people out.
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http://www.quaker.org/news/archives/0,542,3,990134,00,00.html (12 Sep 2014, 07:36)
To add some more background here on the fact that there’s been a resurgence of interest and activity in and out of the Quaker movement, here’s an excerpt from the Quaker site from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints web site:
In the 1880s, nearly all of the Quaker movement originated in California. The California Quaker Community League (also called “the Quakers”) organized itself as an amalgamation of the Quaker Church and the Quaker International Association (http://quakerinternational.org) into the first movement to build a more comprehensive Quaker community. Quakers took advantage of that movement and turned it into the premier Quaker church in the United States. Since then, the Quakers have been engaged in various actions, such as forming unions, getting elected to local councils, having a membership council and doing all sorts of other activities. These groups have expanded, and many of these were centered in the California Quakers in the late nineteenth century. Several major Quaker movements are still running today, including Quaker Quaker Organizations in the United States and Canada, various Quaker congregations in the United States, the Quakers in the United Kingdom, Quakers in Latin America and Canada, Quaker Church in
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You have to be careful with that. If you were born in Kentucky, you’ll be able to become a Quaker by giving your family you’re not related to.
If you’re not able to, you might leave this place without any money… so be patient.
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If all goes well, or you have to deal with the loss of your home, if you stay, try one of these things:
You’ll be okay, if you stay in a place that’s only right for your family, but if you leave it will be your home.
The Puritans, or some of them, would go back to school. This is what you hear in English school, about the family, not that they lived in a freehouse. This was the time, to me, that was lost forever, because of so many who were persecuted by a certain group. When people were born back in the time of Henry IV, we don’t hear any of that here here. The Puritans were pretty much the “Old Guard” and in the sense that they worked hard to keep the old people out.
[p>Blog
http://www.quaker.org/news/archives/0,542,3,990134,00,00.html (12 Sep 2014, 07:36)
To add some more background here on the fact that there’s been a resurgence of interest and activity in and out of the Quaker movement, here’s an excerpt from the Quaker site from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints web site:
In the 1880s, nearly all of the Quaker movement originated in California. The California Quaker Community League (also called “the Quakers”) organized itself as an amalgamation of the Quaker Church and the Quaker International Association (http://quakerinternational.org) into the first movement to build a more comprehensive Quaker community. Quakers took advantage of that movement and turned it into the premier Quaker church in the United States. Since then, the Quakers have been engaged in various actions, such as forming unions, getting elected to local councils, having a membership council and doing all sorts of other activities. These groups have expanded, and many of these were centered in the California Quakers in the late nineteenth century. Several major Quaker movements are still running today, including Quaker Quaker Organizations in the United States and Canada, various Quaker congregations in the United States, the Quakers in the United Kingdom, Quakers in Latin America and Canada, Quaker Church in
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You have to be careful with that. If you were born in Kentucky, you’ll be able to become a Quaker by giving your family you’re not related to.
If you’re not able to, you might leave this place without any money… so be patient.
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If all goes well, or you have to deal with the loss of your home, if you stay, try one of these things:
You’ll be okay, if you stay in a place that’s only right for your family, but if you leave it will be your home.
The Puritans, or some of them, would go back to school. This is what you hear in English school, about the family, not that they lived in a freehouse. This was the time, to me, that was lost forever, because of so many who were persecuted by a certain group. When people were born back in the time of Henry IV, we don’t hear any of that here here. The Puritans were pretty much the “Old Guard” and in the sense that they worked hard to keep the old people out.
[p>Blog
http://www.quaker.org/news/archives/0,542,3,990134,00,00.html (12 Sep 2014, 07:36)
To add some more background here on the fact that there’s been a resurgence of interest and activity in and out of the Quaker movement, here’s an excerpt from the Quaker site from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints web site:
In the 1880s, nearly all of the Quaker movement originated in California. The California Quaker Community League (also called “the Quakers”) organized itself as an amalgamation of the Quaker Church and the Quaker International Association (http://quakerinternational.org) into the first movement to build a more comprehensive Quaker community. Quakers took advantage of that movement and turned it into the premier Quaker church in the United States. Since then, the Quakers have been engaged in various actions, such as forming unions, getting elected to local councils, having a membership council and doing all sorts of other activities. These groups have expanded, and many of these were centered in the California Quakers in the late nineteenth century. Several major Quaker movements are still running today, including Quaker Quaker Organizations in the United States and Canada, various Quaker congregations in the United States, the Quakers in the United Kingdom, Quakers in Latin America and Canada, Quaker Church in
Economics was the first reason to colonize the New World. The lures of the New World included vast riches and an abundance of land. The first attempts to colonize failed, but finally, the London Company colonized Jamestown after three tries. Jamestown didnt make a quick profit as was expected, but it eventually did after tobacco and indigo, two major cash crops of Virginia, were cultivated. Another reason that a quick profit wasnt made was the Native Americans. When the colonists first arrived in the New World, they didnt know people already inhabited it. Fights started occurring periodically because the English would go on their land without permission. This destroyed some goods the English would grow and thus lessen the exports, which gave them a profit.
As my final point, economics was one of the major reasons that the British colonized but they did not outshine the religious reasons. Most of the colonists were religious immigrants and many established colonies, like Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, were based on religious freedom.