English settlers main hope was to gain land in the new world that they could use for farming. This would enable them to make money from selling crops. They would then pass the land to their sons keeping the family prosperous.
There were other settlers that left to escape persecution (mostly religious persecution).
The first true apes evolved about 55 million years ago or a bit earlier, near the beginning of the Eocene Epoch
Is you're talking about WWII it would be the japoneses attack to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 7, 1941, that motivated US to join the war against the Axis power
It was Russia whose ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce global warming brought the treaty into effect, although it should be noted that the country before Russia to ratify, Iceland, made it fairly clear that the treaty would be put into effect.
