PLEASE HELP ME! Compare and contrast different motives of different European countries in terms of New World exploration and settlement. Describe the early English efforts to settle and colonize the New World. What attracted the actual settlers to the New World? What obstacles did the various different English settlements encounter in the New World? What adaptations did the English settlers experience as a result of the New World environment? Who were the Puritans, how did they differ from other religious groups in England? What was it that attracted Puritan settlers to the New World? How did the Puritans of New England develop in a way such as to lead to conflict with the Mother Country, England? Compare and contrast the Puritans with the other religious groups that settled in the Northern Colonies.