> Puritans [...] colonized America first Hi, Jamestown would like to have a word with you. The Puritans set up shop in New England, but in the rest of the col

> Puritans [...] colonized America first Hi, Jamestown would like to have a word with you. The Puritans set up shop in New England, but in the rest of the colonies wasn't focused on the religious extremism that the early Puritans were: Maryland was originally a Catholic refuge colony, and the rest of the colonies were largely driven by economic migration (e.g., second sons of wealthy landowners who couldn't inherit any land in England).