What was the primary reason the pilgrims came to the new world?

The foundation of the American colonies represented a unique event in world history, since they were founded in some cases with religious and biblical ideological raises and one of their first dogmas was religious tolerance. The reason for this was that many of the first pilgrims who settled in the 'New England' of America in the early seventeenth century were Puritan refugees fleeing religious persecutions in Europe.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they liv