Both Religious Freedom and Economic Betterment best describes the motivation behind the founding of the English Colonies. Religious freedom had an enormous part on this motivation because certain Colonies were founded by puritans who were trying to find Religious freedom and because colonies were based upon thoughts and ideas they had about religion. Economic betterment also played a major role in the founding of the colonies because Spanish and English people were trying to find gold and new land to make there nations more powerful and wealthy.

Religious Freedom played an important part which led to the formation of the English Colonies. It plays an important part because people wanted the right to have religious freedom and to be able to live in a different society where they could voice their opinions and thoughts relating to religion. An example of people who desired religious freedom would be the...