Early_Colonies

Early Colonies There were various reasons why the American Colonies were established. The three most important themes of English colonization of America were religion, economics, and government. The most important reasons for colonization were to seek refuge, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. To a lesser degree, the colonists sought to establish a stable and progressive government. Many colonies were founded for religious purposes. While religion was involved with all of the colonies, Massachusetts, New Haven, Maryland, and Pennsylvania were established exclusively for religious purposes. Massachusetts's inhabitants were Puritans who believed in predestination and the ideal that God is perfect. Many Puritans in England were persecuted for their nihilist beliefs in England because they felt that the Church of England, led by the Kind, did not enforce a literal enough interpretation of the Bible. Persecution punishment included england, religious, religion, puritans, holland, colonies, because, america, seek, refuge, reasons, purposes, important, government, freedom, felt, established, english, colonization, beliefs, although, , while, various, three, themes, stable, south, sought, sojourners, separatists, separated, safer, rocky, rebel, rather