The political problems in England encouraged the Puritans to start a colony in North America because at the beginning of the 16th century, their movement focused on the calvinist approach, didn't accept the Catholic Church or the Anglican one. As a result of that in 1604 the king Jacobo I rejected the Puritans and he threatened them saying them that "They have to flee from England or He'd do something terrible", and <u>from that moment the Puritans were persecuted for their beliefs.</u> Afterwards in 1628, <u>the London bishop William Laud decided to eliminate them thorough a violent oppression, which generated that the Puritans fled to North America in 1630 and stablished a colony there.</u>
Political problems in Europe such as religious persecution encouraged the Puritans to move to North America. They came looking for freedom from the Catholic kings.
Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks. There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace.
