Answer: The main reason is for Religious Freedom. This is because people in england often could not worship who they wanted without being harrassed.
Plymouth "always remained small. After the founding of the [Massachusetts] Bay Colony, its population declined. When in the 1660s it could count three thousand souls within its boundaries, it was still only one-fourth or one-third the size of the Bay Colony." Powers does not give any source for his population estimate of <span>3000.</span>
I am sorry. I don't have that book but ill try my best. They consider it a more modern war because of the time. It is also because of several modernized inventions. For example, some cars, the cotton gin, and steam boats. People were escaping slavery and fighting for rights. There was also tons of new cultures coming from other people.
