In the 16th and 17th century the New World was a rapidly changing and growing. There was many reasons that a lot of people had migrated to the new world from England. One of the main reasons was the protestant Reformation, which had forced so many Catholics to move to the new world. The English civil was a major result to cause people to migrate to the new world. As the war was coming to an end King Charles was beheaded and the puritans had took over. King Charles supporters were forced to leave England and they have fled to the new world. So many groups of puritans had fled England in search of riches and wealth, and to achieve a religious utopia. The next major cause was the fall of feudalism, this caused major widespread disease across the …show more content…
To fill this need, planters recruited immigrants from various countries and also it created a high demand for land to grow that crop. Virginia had no values nor religion, and heritages. Virginia was a place were only people wanted to find treasure but not to settle down and live in prosperity such as Massachusetts. Massachusetts was a place to live in harmony and to live with values and religion for its center of life. Massachusetts Bay were much different than its Chesapeake counterpart; it was founded due to religious conflicts. The first town Plymouth were founded by Pilgrims, the Separatists who suffered persecution from the government. Although that was the first colony in Massachusetts Bay, the major settlements did not come until 1629 when the Puritan merchants, landed gentlemen and lawyers organized the Massachusetts Bay Company and founded the town of Salem. s opposed to the commercial reasons of founding Jamestown, Puritans founded Salem because they were being persecuted by the and Catholic Church power in England. Therefore, founding Salem was solely a religious purpose. Unlike the Jamestown colonists who only hoped to gain a profit, Puritan leaders aimed to build a better society in America that could set an example for the rest of the