To find more lands, explore the world, ect….
The general election is where people of the country voting for the members of the houses of commons. The work of those of Commons is to oversee the tax regulation and the law to see the most powerful of the two houses of the parliament. We can term that as a country in the republic, If whose government is controlled by the elected representative of the population. A good country should be governed by a set of guidelines and laws which term them as the constitution.
They came to America expecting to immediately find gold so a lot of people ended up being ill prepared due to mining once they disembarked as opposed to setting up any real shelter at least some of the English settlers did, I am not so sure about other nationalities settlers
The answer for your inquiry is suburbanization.