<span>The chief motivation for the settling of New England was: religious freedom. </span>
The item that was NOT a cause of the Reformation:
C. The desire to spread Islam to Western Europe.
Further details:
The Roman Catholic Church failed to provide much hope or comfort to people during the years of the 100 Years War and the devastation of the Black Death. Corruption within the church only became worse in the years that followed, and people were wanting change. Coupled with that were new ideas and challenges being posed by the start of the Scientific Revolution. Martin Luther, whose activity sparked the Reformation, was a contemporary of Nicolaus Copernicus, whose work sparked the Scientific Revolution.
Thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are called the reconstruction amendments which aimed to achieve political equality in the American society.
Explanation:
The purpose of the thirteenth amendment was to abolish slavery and annihilate serving someone involuntarily. Fourteenth amendment advocates rights of an american citizen and fifteenth amendment proclaimed that all citizens are equal to vote in United States of America.
These amendments were called reconstruction amendments because it was significant in transforming united states which was partially free and partially slave states to a country on which liberty and equality was bestowed without any disparity on all citizens of US.