To get away from the ruling, taxing, and to create a society of their own that would not be bound to religious views and tolerances.... ironically enough, religion still plays a pathetically significant role in the US.
They were looking for religious freedom
why
Yes, this is how many Irish immigrants reached America duiring the famine, actually for a breif period until the invention of trans-Atlantic flight it was the only way for many people to get across the Atlantic ocean to America.
They were not slaves. They were indentured servants! Your Curious Friend
Most people migrated to North America from Europe via Asia via the connection across the Bering Strait up in Alaska. More recently, people migrated to North America by sailing across the Atlantic ocean.
Indentured servants
indentured servants
The simply left Sweden which at the time had open borders for people wishing to leave for America. They traveled across the Atlantic by ship.
The first European immigrants came on ships across the Atlantic. The Aboriginals of North America are thought to have come to America by an Ice Bridge that was naturally formed linking what is now Alaska to Siberian Russia.
People From England brought English to America.
The 13 British colonies. But one country in particular is Spain.
Same way people get from England to New England: by sailing the Northern Atlantic Ocean.
The voyages of Columbus triggered a great transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.
The voyages of Columbus triggered a great transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.