Benefits Of Life In The 1700s

Life in the 1700s wasn't easy; the struggle was real back then but an opportunity comes up for the people in Europe. A new world was found and people set out west for many reasons. Some were trying to make money and start businesses. Others try to escape religion oppression to have their own freedoms of religion. Once they got to the west, there was also a great need for protection from invaders like other European countries. Going west might have involved plenty of risks but the rewards and freedom obtained might as well been worth it.

People saw a great opportunity to make money through gold mining. One of the original colonies, Virginia, was once thought to be plentiful of gold. Though it might have been, they weren't ready for the cold winters and many have lost their lives for that. They were in a verge to give up but some friendly native came in and helped out. The native showed the colonist how to plant and grow many things but the most famous was tobacco in Virginia. Even though the didn't found gold, with some help from native American, they made a huge profit in tobacco and got
In England, Roman Catholicism was strictly practice, but a group of people called the Puritans, who have their own religious ways, wants nothing to do with Roman Catholicism. King James the first didn't wanted the pesky Puritans around, so he told them, get out is country or be executed. The Puritans have nowhere to go but to the new world, so they set sail. Try to find Virginia, the Puritans accidentally landed on Massachusetts. There they set up colonies and strictly made it to their own ways of Puritans, meaning that anyone that isn't a Puritans is kicked out of the colony. A country where you are being forced to summit in the religious way isn't all that great. A group of people sought of a different way and choose to go to the new world to they could practice religious