Colonial America

Colonial America
In the first part of US History we learned about the hardships and conditions upon which the settlers came to settle in this country. We learned about how the poor fled to claim riches and escape poverty, the Irish fled from famine and, being of Catholic religion, escape their Protestant masters, and the criminal were sent to start a new life. America meant freedom to the fleeing Europeans. As Page Smith writes in his essay From the Beginnings, “Many of them shared some particular expectation, whether for spiritual or material betterment or, happily, both”. Most of all the new American Colonist searched for economic and social freedom.
From the beginning, the European immigrants fled the British Isles because of religious persecution. A Puritan named Cromwell beheaded Charles I and took over the throne of England. The Royalist, who was the supporters of the executed king, fled to America and found refuge in Virginia and New York. When Charles II came bac...