What role did religion play in the establishment
and life of the English colonies?

In the beginning, religion had a key factor.

Explanation:

During the founding of the colonies, but also for many decades, religion played a key role in English colonists' society. The impossibility of organizing the church at its own discretion in native England was a key factor that led the Puritans to emigrate en masse from England to North America. The Puritans in the New World organized the church the way they had always wanted, and their society was deeply religious, and every segment of life was imbued with religion. Later, the situation will become somewhat freer, especially after the emergence of modern economic trends.