Question

The Motivations for establishing new settlements in theNew World included all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Religious persecution
B. The plague
C. Wars
D. Economic Opportunity
E. Criminal records

Answer 1

I know that its not:
A. b/c Pilgrims and the Massachusetts Bay Colony
D. b/c Virginia and tobacco

Answer 2

@whpalmer4 Did you say you knew history?

Answer 3

@JuniorEinstein1 Do you know history things?

Answer 4

B. The Plague I think sounds correct

Answer 5

Why though?

Answer 6

Because they brought it to them not knowing .Is the plague a Motivation? :0)

Answer 7

E. Criminal records?

Answer 8

Like they would leave the Old world because of the plague or because of their criminal records.... i wasn't sure because of stowaways....

Answer 9

It's two choices correct ?

Answer 10

Colonists settled British North America for different reasons. Some came for profits; others came for religious freedom. For those colonies established for profit, the British Crown granted charters to venturing proprietors or joint-stock companies.

Answer 11

no its multiple choice and i couldn't eliminate the other answers

Answer 12

yeah. its an EXCEPT question. which means only one on that list is not a reason for settling

Answer 13

Which one do you think it is ?

Answer 14

I'm not sure.... thats why i posted it....

the answers isn't A or D

Answer 15

C.

Answer 16

I don't believe BNA was intended as a penal colony, unlike Australia. E would be my expectation.

Answer 17

The Plague was a thing at the time? or a plague?
and no criminal stowaways???? or anything like that?

Answer 18

i thought some left England to escape debtor's prison?

Answer 19

doing some more reading, I see that my belief was mistaken!

Answer 20

Apparently the British only started shipping convicts to Australia after the American Revolution, and many of the original settlers of Georgia were convicts. 50,000 or so British convicts were sent here, it seems!

Answer 21

Oh well thank you! I'm trying to do Chem hw, History hw, and study for my AP exams....

Answer 22

That gets rid of E then...

Answer 23

War and Plague are left.

Answer 24

yes, that's the bright side of the coin :-)

Answer 25

thank you for helping me

Answer 26

please let me know if you find anything else...? i'm at a loss

Answer 27

It war...

Answer 28

Another article I read states that European countries had just had their populations decimated by the plague, which would suggest to me that plague was not a motivating factor. If your population is already thinned out, you don't want it stretched out further trying to colonize a large land mass, right?

Answer 29

or you may want to get out in order to save your people.....

Answer 30

where there even any wars going on around this time period or was it a pretty peaceful time, do you think?

Answer 31

Well, I think the plague outbreaks had mostly died out — plague came in waves, not continuously.

There was always some jostling for position in terms of territorial expansion.

Answer 32

right but what territorial expansion, at the time? isn't that what the New World was?

Answer 33

Ok.... so I was talking with my mother about it and she thinks that the answer is in the plague because it was 14th century Europe. would people still be running from the plague a hundred years later. And that the European nations were almost always at war for some reason....... thoughts???