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The New England the Middle and the Southern colonies each had their own motives for moving to North America. Each of them had both religious and economical reasons, and each their own separate ideas about freedom. Religion was a major motive for people to move to the Americas. The New England colonies were made up of puritans. They wanted to purify the English church and do away with Catholic practices. They believed that this would …

…a little of both. They traded and grew cash crops. They eventually were known for the beginning of the slave trade. They grew and traded tobacco, rice, sugar and eventually cotton. The final reason the people settled in these colonies was freedoms. The New England colonies believed that women had no rights. The Middle colonies on the other hand believed that men and women were equals. The Southern colonies believed that women had few rights.