The first settlers who arrived in North America from the British islands had, fundamentally, one objective: the establishment of a liberal society, especially in religious terms.
Thus, these first settlers, who arrived aboard the Mayflower ship, as the ones that arrived in later years, sought in America what did not exist in Europe: religious freedom.
It is that, in Britain, the conflicts between Catholics and Anglicans had led to the establishment of a kind of religious totalitarianism where minorities were persecuted and could not fully exercise their faith.
Therefore, these colonists had the expectation of creating more egalitarian and free societies, where these types of restrictions did not exist.
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