The correct answers are C) many settlers came to North American seeking religious freedom and D) the first permanent English settlement in North America began as a quest for gold.
The other options of the question were A) after living in Plymouth a year, the settlers celebrated by adopting the Mayflower Compact. B) Captain John Smith was responsible for helping Virginia colonists produce tobacco as a cash crop.
The statements that accurately describe English settlement North America are the following: many settlers came to North American seeking religious freedom and the first permanent English settlement in North America began as a quest for gold.
The first formal English colony in North America was Jamestown, Virginia, founded in 1607. The Virgin Company of London sponsored the trip from England to America with the idea of people settle in the new territories, work the land and make a profit. These people came to America to get rich. Another reason was that some Puritans were escaping from the religious persecution of the Church of England and decided to move to the Americas to practice their religious beliefs. They arrived at Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1620.
