Question

Summarize the role of religion in the founding of various English colonies. Which of the first thirteen colonies were founded more for economic then political or religious religious reasons?

Answer 1

Religious played a significant role in the founding of various English colonies in the early period because people came to the New World to seek religious freedom. Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony were some of the colonies founded fro religious reason.

Virginia, Jamestown, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina Delaware, and New York were some of the colonies which founded for economic reasons than political and religious reasons in the New World.