The Pilgrim Fathers,came to America because the English and others were fed-up with their puritanical ways,so they left and started their witch burnings and drowings and savagery in America,which continues today...FACT
theliq, let me guess you are a high school drop out?

How the **** can someone like you be so STUPID and IGNORANT and be posting on the internet?
You're talking to convict spawn there. The English were fed up of his type, and shipped him off to the arse end of nowhere.
Nope. The English had ridiculous laws at that time, which allowed poor people to be imprisoned or even hanged for stealing a loaf of bread to feed their families. Most of those shipped off to Australia were people just trying to survive in an incredibly hostile environment without resources. The English treated their poor horribly, with "workhouses" and such. Other countries in Europe were the same way.
In England alone, sit down and take a look at the conditions in Whitechapel around the time of the Ripper murders. The church and the upper classes turned their backs on the poor (and please note that this was white-on-white), echoing a crazy Protestant idea that people were poor because God didn't like them. These people were sleeping in "doss houses," held up by ropes, when they could earn the few pennies for entrance. Many of these people "earned" the pennies that would get them into these "doss houses" by prostitution.