New England Colonies Motives

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New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut composed the New England colonies. Religion was a primary motive for English settlements in New England and a big part of their routine. The men and women who migrated there were mostly Puritans who were looking for a hafe heaven to practice their own religion and separate from the Church of England. These were mainly families, including children, who lived in small houses, had strong ties to their new church, and worked in diverse industries including farming, fishing, lumber, and others (Lecture notes, chapter 4). British setlements to the Southern colonies of Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas had economic motives with cash crops as the main source of farming based economy.

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