The Chesapeake region consists of Maryland and Virginia, and the New England colonies consists of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Even though they were both settled around the same time period, 1607 to 1700, the two regions differ greatly. From the time period of their original settlement in 1607, the Chesapeake region developed differently from the New England colonies due to their differences in geography, motives for settlement and the socioeconomic backgrounds of their original settlers.…
The few similarities between the Chesapeake and New England would be they were founded around the same time period by people of English descent. Unlike New England, where religion was a key factor to their society, Chesapeake was big on slavery, which led to the slave labor camps. The Chesapeake was mainly founded in order to earn money, after suffering from a severe drought they found Orinoco tobacco, which led to a better economy. “Tobacco, grown…
The colonies in New England and the Chesapeake region both had the similarity of being English conolines. Another similarity these colonies had were both encountered conflicts with the Native Americans over the issue of land. The Pequot war had occurred in New England while the settlers of Chesapeake clashed with the Powhatan Confederacy. Aside from those similarities, there were many differences between the conolines. One major difference were how the towns and settlements were set up between the two. The settlements of New England were much more compact than those of Chesapeake and closely resembled the build from the towns back in England. Alongside from being more compact, the homes in New England were built to last. Meanwhile, the towns…
The settlers of the New England and Chesapeake region came from the same origin,but by 1700 their social, economical, and political differences led them in two different directions. People began to adapt to their regions and looked for ways to survive and benefit from the geography they lived in. The Chesapeake region of the colonies included Virginia, Maryland, the New Jerseys (both East and West) and Pennsylvania. New England was north of the Chesapeake, and included Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven (which soon became part of Connecticut). In New England, the population was English and white, with the Church established. In the Chesapeake,the population was a majority black-slaves, plantation owners relied on the cheap labor slaves or indentured servants provided. Slave trade became a leading industry.…
Wessell Webling like many who wanted to leave England in search of the better promised life in the colonies could not afford the oversea voyage. In exchange for the cost of the trip Webling became the indentured servant to Edward Bennett. Webling was to provide 3 years of servitude, and Bennett was to provide him with ample and substantial food and drink, proper shelter and good clothes to wear.…
During the late 16th century and into the 17th century, two colonies emerged from England in the New World. The two colonies were called the Chesapeake and New England colonies. Even though the two areas were formed and governed by the English, the colonies had similarities as well as differences. Differences in geography, religion, politics, economic, and nationalities, were responsible for molding the colonies. These differences came from one major factor: the very reason the English settlers came to the New World. The Chesapeake colonies were primarily created by companies interested in profiting from the natural resources of the New World such as gold or silver to bring back to England. The New England colonies were primarily created to escaped religious persecution and set up a haven for people of their faith.…
The three colonial regions of British North America had differences economically and socially. Massachusetts Bay in New England struggled with farming due to the rocky land. However Virginia, a southern colony, and middle colonies had fertile land and had warmer weather. Despite the fact that all three regions were settled by English Colonists, all regions had different religious points of view. Farming and religion are differences economically and socially that separated the three colonial regions.…
"Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies.…
During the early settlement of the U.S. by colonists, people were searching for fresh fiscal starts, and for religious freedom. New England was founded for a different reason than the Chesapeake region. The Chesapeake Region was founded in 1607 for the purpose of economic advancement. Many of the Chesapeake settlers traded furs and the growth and export of tobacco. The New England Region was founded in the 1620s for the purpose of religious freedom. The New England Purists were seeking refuge from persecution by the church and the English government. The Purists were a much less economically centralized group of people and relied on their community to survive. This difference in overall…
Throughout the course of the semester we talked about many things starting from Pre-Columbian North American cultures to the expansion to the west. North America was such an important land to many in Europe countries because it was unexplored and new. The first settlement in America was in Jamestown, Virginia also known as the Chesapeake colony. But they weren’t the only ones to come to America there was also the New England colonies that came to for different reasons than the Chesapeake colonies. One of the reason was for religious purposes, the Chesapeake colonies came for economic reasons and the New England also economic but mostly religion because they wanted separation from the church.…
During the 1700s, English immigrants and explorers began settling in the Americas. They began developing the Chesapeake region, Middle Colonies, and the New England Colonies Out of these three, the New England and the Chesapeake Region were the largest. The Chesapeake Colony, which included Jamestown, Virginia, and New England Colonies, which included the Massachusetts Bay, were mostly settled for religious freedom, economic opportunities, and adventures. People began leaving their land because of poor economy/unemployment and the growing number of “landless” people in England. Both these colonies developed from Puritans. Although both colonies developed from the same people and reasons, they were developed very differently.…
In the midst of the 1600s, religious persecution transpired in England between the Catholics and Protestants, provoked by the concept of there only being one “true” religion. Settlers fled England in search of not only a place where they could have religious freedom without conviction, but also a place where they had an opportunity for economic prosperity, land ownership, and wealth. Although colonists may have fled England for similar reasons, the intentions for the establishment and development of the New England and Chesapeake colonies differed greatly. The New England and Chesapeake colonies both developed on top of Christianity and God’s justification, but the colonists in each region shared differing relationships between the colonists…
By the 1700s, New England and the Chesapeake region had developed very distinct societies. This dichotomy can be traced from the very foundation of the colonies. The New England colonies were founded as examples of pure religion, each was to "be as a city upon a hill."1 In contrast to this worthy cause, the Chesapeake colonies were originally founded during the great search for gold, and later continued as slave-supported plantation colonies. The New Englanders would come to prosper through their hard work, thrift, and the quality of their commitment to God and each other. The South, conversely, prospered because of the quantity of her land and the great staple crops harvested there.…
The English colonies in the Americas consisted of four regional colonies: Chesapeake, Southern, New England, and Middle Colonies. Each of these colonies not only differed, in…
The New England and Chesapeake colonies were both settled by English colonists. Most colonists moving from Great Britain to New England were families searching for religious salvation, rather than mostly the single men that traveled to the Chesapeake area in search of wealth. The immigrants of the Chesapeake area were greeted with a climate and soil that were perfect for cultivating tobacco, cotton, indigo, and rice. Those settling in New England could not rely on farming to support themselves because of the rocky soil in the north. While the majority of the Chesapeake colonists were not as cohesive due to the great distance from farms to these towns, New England had close-knit church events, meetings, and schools. Although, the New England and Chesapeake colonies were both settled by people at English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies because of motives, environment, and towns/communities.…