Describe how 400 years ago America

would be considered an experiment.

400 years ago America consisted of a few colonies, financed by private investments, whose inhabitants were mainly religious minorities.

The experiment was both a religious and an economic one: to develop a colony, in the other side of the world, where a religious, homogeneous minoroty could develop an economy, mostly self-sustaining, but also with the goal of trading with the local inhabitants.