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Many of the people coming to New England were looking forward to religious freedom. Beginning in the reign of King Henry VIII, England was submerged in state controlled religion. His duaghter Mary wanted to revert to the old religion after his death. She did not last long. Elizabeth took over as Queen and reverted to her father's choice. In the midst of all this chaos, the Continental Europe was going through Luther and Calvinism. Many British and Europeans simply came to New England to put distance between them and their King or Pope.
During the 1850s, tensions between the North and South increased as the nation decided to how to incorporate the vast territories that had been acquired during the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. The question of whether each territory was to be slave or non-slave worsened sectional tensions.
John L Baird made the TV.
