Question

Explain the reasons why people were coming to the new world

Answer 1

Political
Economic
Social
Religious
Push Factors: factors that cause to want to move people away from a location.
Pull Factors: Factors that appeal to a person about the new location
In England, most people were peasants or tenant farmers who worked on more wealthy citizens land. There was not a lot of land and if it was for sale it was usually very expensive.
In the colonies, land seemed abundant. Many of the first settlers were given free land by a colony or purchased the land cheaply.
Native Americans were pushed out of land because the settlers did not understand how Native Americans viewed land.
The availability of land was a major reason many settlers came to the colonies.
Many colonists came as indentured servants.
Colonial landowners or businessmen would pay for the indentured servants travel to the colonies and in return the person would work for the landowner or businessman for an agreed upon length.
During the time the person was indentured, they gave up certain freedoms while they worked. It was very similar to slavery, but these people choose to become indentured servants and could eventually obtain freedom.
Once the debt was worked off, the indentured servant was free to start their own life in the colonies.
Pilgrims (Plymouth)
wanted to escape persecution and separate from the Church of England
Puritans (Massachusetts)
wanted to purify the Church of England
Quakers (Pennsylvania)
wanted to escape religious persectution
Catholics (Maryland)
Wanted to escape religious persecution

I would most likely consider paraphrasing this.