What role did puritanism play in the settlement of north america by europeans?

The Puritans needed religious flexibility and escape from oppression. Strictness, a religious change development in the late sixteenth and seventeenth hundreds of years that tried to "cleanse" the Church of England of remainders of the Roman Catholic "popery" that the Puritans guaranteed had been held after the religious settlement achieved ahead of schedule in the rule of Queen Elizabeth I.