... French. However, with regards to true settlement involving men, women and children it is more likely that because of the situation in Europe their motivation was religious dominated, and some had even hoped to build a new and better society free from the impurities of the old European world. Success in these aims varied. Rhode Island welcomed people of every shade of religious belief but Catholics and Quakers were stilled under pressure to conform to the Church of England. The Huguenots in the French colonies were expelled in New France because of the growing belief in absolutism by the French monarchy. In the South Americas, faced with the prospect of the Inquisition, Jews fled to North America and lived successful lives. Civil liberties were too not achieved by all Europeans. Certainly, Spanish colonies preserved the hierarchical system of old Spain with the Spanish monarchy firmly in control of government and ...

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