<span>The chief motivation for the settling of New England was: religious freedom. </span>
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be that it had "little-to-no effect" on trade, since gold and salt in fact allowed many of these kingdoms to profit greatly.</span></span>
Puritans were strict Protestants who wanted to 'purify' the Church and get rid of all traces of the Catholic faith. Many had fled abroad when Mary I, a Catholic, was queen, but had started to return when Elizabeth, a Protestant, came to the throne.
The industrial revolution sped up the process of urbanization <span />
