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=== Push-pull factors ===
=== Push-pull factors ===
'''Push factors''' from England:
==== 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
==== Push factors to American colonies====
* economic opportunity (trade)
* economic opportunity (trade)
* adventurism
* adventurism