Question

Which statement is best described by the phrases in the box below?

• religious intolerance
• high rents on land
• scarcity of resources
A.
reasons Spanish colonies in America were abandoned
B.
reasons English settlers came to colonies in America
C.
reasons the Puritans returned to England
D.
reasons the colonists in America created a national religion

Answer 1

B.

Those phrases are push factors that drove English settlers to migrate to American colonies — fleeing religious intolerance (e.g., Puritans/Pilgrims), escaping high rents and enclosure-driven loss of common land, and seeking resources and economic opportunity unavailable at home.