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Exercise 3 TEXT A The early American settlers came primarily for economic reasons. They settled down in the colonies in America because they wanted to get more raw materials for English commerce and create new markets for English goods. Other reasons for settlement--to escape religious persecution, to reduce the population, to catch up with the Spanish and French advance in the colonies, and to search for a quicker passage to India--were secondary to the desire of the English Crown and commercial interests to develop America in ways that increased Englands prosperity. Here, emphasis was p