Separatists are the group that we commonly refer to as Pilgrims. They settled in Plymouth. The following Separatist groups would create other towns in the area. These towns and settlements would join together to form the Massachusetts Bay Company.<span />
The French Revolution and the American Revolution were almost direct results of Enlightenment thinking. The idea that society is a social contract between the government and the governed stemmed from the Enlightenment as well
The Declaration of Independence says that the American colonists are absolved from all ties and allegiances to the British Crown, since they argue the British have acted tyrannically. <span />
Mainly from Europe more specifically Germany ,Ireland, England and France due to various problems such as crop failure. They have also immigrated because of Christopher Columbus's voyages of the new world.