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The Great Migration of 1630 took place due to problems resulting from the vicious struggles between King Charles I and Parliament. The Parliament at the time was made up of a large majority of Puritans. Due to the above mentioned struggle over twenty Thousand puritans migrated to the New World between 1630 and 1643. The root to the problems between Charles I and the Parliament (Puritans) stemmed back as far as the end of Queen Elizabeth's Death. Queen Elizabeth died childless and therefore left no heir. The next in line was the son of Mary Stuart, the Catholic Queen of Scotland who had bee...
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