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=== Push-pull factors === | === Push-pull factors === | ||
==== Push factors from England==== | |||
* poverty/ lack of land ownership (rents) | * poverty/ lack of land ownership (rents) | ||
* religious persecution | * religious persecution | ||
* escape debt or criminality | * escape debt or criminality | ||
** (generally via indentured servitude) | |||
* lack of economic or social opportunity | * lack of economic or social opportunity | ||
* primogeniture | * primogeniture | ||
** 2nd sons didn't inherent titles or property | ** 2nd sons didn't inherent titles or property | ||
* limits imposed by British social and economic class system | * limits imposed by British social and economic class system | ||
==== Push factors to American colonies==== | |||
* economic opportunity (trade) | * economic opportunity (trade) | ||
* adventurism | * adventurism |