“If colonists (or later immigrants) weren’t coming here to practice their religion in peace and avoid discrimination for being a member of a religious or political minority, they were someing here to be free of the economic constraints of living in societies where everyone had a place and if you didn’t like your station in life you had very few means to change it.”
And they created an even worse system in America! Every colony permitted chattel slavery, and the early arrivals got all the best land and used that economic power to oppress even the non-slaves.