Both pilgrims and puritans established new world colonies to
follow separatist beliefs.
benefit the church of england.
practice their religions freely.
avoid an impending religious war.

Pilgrims and Puritans established new world colonies to: practice their religions freely.

Both of these groups ran away from Europe due to the religious prosecution by the Catholic Church (at that time, the church was extremely corrupt and involved too much in the government) . These groups created their own government in the ships that they're in and implemented it when they established the new world colonies in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

states began imposing duties on each other's goods. congress had no way to raise money for an army to expel them.

what are the others?