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New England Colonies Dbq
The American identity started with a dream. That dream grew from a hope to find new trade routes to an economic stronghold to an entire country full of people who now claim dreams of their own. The American Dream began by people wanting to follow their own religion.
Colonies settled into the New World for varied reasons. The colonists settled in the New Word because they hoped for a new beginning. The achievement of this travel justified that the colonies can be markets for England's manufactured goods. "England saw the colonies as a way to sell more goods and resources to other countries." (Marks). The rulers influenced them to cross over to the New World because it's possible to expand their empires to America. Soon after the colonists crossed over, they began to set up in different areas. "The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620." (The 13 Colonies).
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The primary reasons for colonizing were the escape from religious persecution, religious freedom and profit. The northern colonies typically held people who begged for religious freedom. The southern colonies typically held people who wanted profit. The colonists wanted to settle here because it was a whole different life aspect from their point of view. Colonists who settled in the New World looked at America as a country with troublemakers. Americans, however think we live in a perfect society and are able to do whatever,

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