There are many different reasons why migrations from the early days up to present time took place as they did. Why would people leave their place of birth or their place of comfort That's the big question! Just like John Winthrop and his puritan believers they left England to form the America ...

When King Henry VII dissolved the Catholic Church and made the Church of England rendering the Pope powerless in all English affairs (Williams, 4), some people, non-conformists, were not happy. They were persecuted for practicing their religion, so when they found a chance to leave, they did. This...

A major part of the destiny of United Stated is shaped by the first Puritans who landed on the shores of New England Massachusetts. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Thomas Cromwell called "a poor, cold, and useless" place, where they created a ideology that was essential in the sha...