There are many reasons: money, fleeing the law, wanting some sort of freedom (religion), wanting a better life than the one they had been born in or adventure.
Plymouth is in Europe! It is in Devon, in the UK.
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they came from Europe
they got in the hover crafts and destroyed england. england used to ba a part of europe untill the colonist groped an atomic bomb and separted england from europe
Columbus went back to Europe. He was an explorer, not a colonist.
Religious persecution was a big reason.Debt and or criminal activities and they may have been deported.Lack of opportunities in their home country.Desire to own land.Hope to find gold and riches in a new place.
Igor Stravinsky had to leave Europe because of World War II.
They wanted to leave Europe for a better life and to go away from religious
Loyalists. At the end of the war they had to leave for Canada.
because king george wanted more money /power
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The colonists wanted to leave there homeland because they were looking for gold and riches in the new world. they wanted to have less diseases so therefore they had to leave.