“Americans (other than blacks) came to America to have the personal and economic freedom that was always lacking elsewhere. “
That is not completely true. Most of New England was settled by people who were fleeing religious tolerance in England and the Netherlands in order to set up a theocracy that offered no personal freedoms beyond what the clergy allowed. Maryland and Virginia were also theocracies. There are many documented cases of religious heretics being expelled from settlements, burnings of churches that professed the wrong theology, and even a few executions of heretics. (And yes, Jews were not permitted in five of the original 13 colonies.)
In addition, every colony implemented a version of England’s 1601 law for the relief of the poor, which is quite similar in many respects to the kuppa that Jewish communities used. Tax rates for poor relief were at times quite high, and the idea that poor people were to be left on their own to suffer appears to be absent.