English colonies in the New World were formed after an attempted invasion of England by the Spanish. Once the outnumbered English navy defeated the Spanish armada, the prospect of gaining land in the New World was simple enough to follow up on. England’s creation of colonies in the New World was a new beginning for the many that sought a better life. The colonists that travelled to the New World were hoping for the individual rights and liberty they had in their English homeland. English colonists had motivations for moving to the New World, but when the colonies did not provide what they felt were their basic rights, rebellions, such as the Bacon Rebellion, occurred. As England suffered from civil war and revolution, the colonies’ interaction with their home country was limited, nearly to the point of neglect. Colonists usually had a reason for leaving England, and those …show more content…
Problems had risen in England that created a reason to leave for many people. Expensive wars had become more frequent, overseas merchants were becoming wealthy while the economy suffered, land started becoming scarce, religious strife became more prominent in England and religion sought new breeding grounds elsewhere. War is never cheap, and being the largest empire in the world results in a divided struggle to hold land across the world. A weak economy aided the merchants in England who were gaining great wealth overseas selling English wool goods, creating the idea of mercantilism. This concept was based on selling as much as possible while buying very little to uphold profit. This led to further interest in colonies as a source of raw materials for further sales. The interest in wool goods led landowners to convert their land from