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How did political problems in England encourage the Puritans to start a colony in North America

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During the 1620s England's economy suffered and many people lost their jobs. King Charles I made things worse by raising taxes, leading to a political crisis.

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The political problems in England encouraged the Puritans to start a colony in North America because at the beginning of the 16th century, their movement focused on the calvinist approach, didn't accept the Catholic Church or the Anglican one. As a result of that in 1604 the king Jacobo I rejected the Puritans and he threatened them saying them that "They have to flee from England or He'd do something terrible", and from that moment the Puritans were persecuted for their beliefs. Afterwards in 1628, the London bishop William Laud decided to eliminate them thorough a violent oppression, which generated that the Puritans fled to North America in 1630 and stablished a colony there.


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