The europeans who migrated to America did so for rather different reasons than the reasons the crown and corporations had for starting the colonies. While the colonies were started for profit, natural resources, and exerting power, the Europeans who actually made the move typically did so in the hopes of starting a better life in America than they ever could have hoped to achieve in Europe. Often this better life settlers were seeking was a better religious life where they freely …show more content…
In Europe it was largely impossible to move through the social classes of the time. In the colonies however almost anyone could become a land owner and have control of their own destiny. However for the people whose goal it was to move up in social status, they often had to become indentured servants to have their passage to the colonies paid for them. At first this seemed like a fine deal, after x years of work they would be able to leave their masters farms and start their new life. Unfortunately, it was often the case in the south that there was no land that the ex-indentured servants could have except for land that was controlled by Native Americans. This led to tensions between the emerging social classes of landowners and ex-indentured servants, native americans and colonists, and may have even had a hand in the spread of slavery in the