Why Did Puritan Migrations from England to the New World

question 13

Multiple Choice

Why did Puritan migrations from England to the New World largely stop after 1642?

• A) The Puritans lost much of their incentive to leave England during the English Civil War and Commonwealth periods.
• B) King Charles I prohibited further Puritan migrations to America.
• C) The hardships reported by the Puritans in America deterred those in England from leaving for America.
• D) Almost all of the Puritans in England had already departed.

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