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What events in England caused the Puritans to embark on the largest single human migration of its kind in the 17th century

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Puritans were being killed for Religious reasons. So they came to the United States to escape the religious persecutions. 
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In the 17th century many Puritans were being killed for religious reasons. They came to the United States to escape the religious persecutions.
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