17世纪30—40年代,英国兴起了向新英格兰的移民潮。宗教上,清教徒移民新英格兰是为了逃避国内宗教迫害,他们希望能在新大陆实现宗教理想;经济上,是为了逃避国内不佳的经济状况,他们希望能在新大陆实现经济富足;亲属关系纽带也是移民原因之一。本次移民潮以家庭为主要迁移单位,移民的年龄、性别结构较为平衡,这有利于殖民地的人口自然增长。 In the 1740s and 1940s, Britain raised a wave of immigrants to New England. Religion, the Puritans immigrants New England is to evade the religious persecution in China, they want to achieve religious ideals in the New World; economically, in order to avoid poor domestic economic conditions, they want to achieve economic prosperity in the New World; kinship ties are also immigrants one of the reasons. The immigration wave is dominated by families. Immigrants have a relatively balanced age and gender structure, which is conducive to the natural population growth of the colonies.