Which group of European immigrants was forced to settle in colonial America?

convicts

Quakers

Catholics

Germans

Convicts

Explanation:

Convicts were forced to settle in colonial america, that was the colonial punishment, penal colonies were those where convicts were sent to make forced labour for the time they were punished for their crimes and then they could be free, somthing like this happened in Australia which eventually became basically the penitentiary for the whole British Commonwealth and were convicts were sent to live their sentence.