Why did the colonists leave England? Also, did they have any rights in England? ?

Question

Why did the colonists leave England? Also, did they have any rights in England? ?

Answer 1

most were paid to go to the new world and were promised to own the land they would cultivate. at first just young men with some skill in agriculture were recruited to go but eventually men with their families went.  there were also those that came to escape religious persecution in england and thus looked at america as new jerusalem of sorts.

the decision to colonize was financed by investors in england who hoped to profit from it. it took a long while though and started to pay off when tobacco from america became in demand in england and whole of europe.  

Answer 2

They often did not have the right to practice their religions. And it is difficult for us today to imagine how much worse it was for poor people, even compared to today. England was not the only country guilty of taking away rights.  It took people like Martin Luther and the Reformation to fight corruption, for instance charging the highest fees people could pay for the assurance they would attain salvation.  

Answer 3

Religious freedom. They were being persecuted for being "Dissenters", people who practiced a religion other than Anglican.  

Answer 4

the colonists left england because they heard that there was freedom of religion in america. in egland they didn't have a choice at the time over which religion they would practice. not sure about the second part though.

i'm sure that they did have rights. though as they didn't have the right to practice the religion of their choice, i would imagine that they didn't have too many.

hope i helped :)

Answer 5

I studied history in college, but I learned it in Genealogy. The folks in that Y!A section could clue us in more than any cut-and-dried history professor.

Every sort of person came over here. Of those British subjects of which I have documentation, most were Scots from Northern Ireland. These families fought off James the Second at the Siege of Londonderry, and were granted special tax exemption by King William for their efforts. However, they remained surrounded by hostile native Irish Catholics, and were not allowed public office and had to tithe to the Anglican church, even though they were Presbyterians.

Between 1700 and 1720 they migrated to North America, in search of religious freedom. The Puritans treated them like trash, but they survived quite well, were strong and inventive, and generally showed great willingness to dump authoritarianism by dumping tea overboard when the American Revolution came.  According to records, they were all extremely well educated for the time, as the land patent applications demonstrate an unusual ability for the people to have been able to actually read and write. Rare for immigrants in those days.

Certainly, many English subjects who colonized North America were paupers, vagabonds, and criminals, but the colonies were furnished with people with all sorts of skills and levels of character and amazing dedication to their families and personal goals. Your question is far more complex than you would suppose and could take hours to answer.

Ask it in Genealogy. Since the majority of my ancestors were Dutch from 1638, I can only tell you that my Scottish lines came here because they wanted to be free from the tiresome restrictions of government.

(Dutch lines are really a mixed bag---but probably too far off topic for your question.)

Personally, I'm glad they made the trip over in one piece...

Answer 6

was i it not cuz they didnt have the right to practice religions and i dont think they had rights well just leave it for freedom