They came to escape religious persecution. :)
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer of the United States. He is best known for being the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
All of these reformers were trying to change things in the US, trying to make things people free, all people free.
In that time, all the events that happened people was not in favor because they thought all of that were crazy and too big, radical. But it was the fight for freedom.
Thomas Jefferson was Hamilton's rival.
Francis Bacon invented scientific method based on inductive reasoning
Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic. Paine avoided flowery prose.