Reasons For Leaving The New World

Once Christopher Columbus had discovered the New World many other European colonists decided to leave behind their old countries and take leave to the new continent. Many people had their different reasons for leaving, but often times it was due to religious freedom, lack of resources, trading, and simply to gain money. In many cases people fled to the New World for religious freedom since many religions were being ostracized. In Europe the Protestants and the Catholics began to fight over their religions, as one source states, “They differed, sometimes violently, on matters such as infant baptism; the degree to which they should reject catholic ritual, iconography, theology; how they should govern their churches; and what was the proper