Before I discuss the differences in these two colonies, I would like to give you some background information on them. Massachusetts was a New England Colony founded by John Winthrop in 1628. King James the first founded Virginia in1607. The first colony of Virginia was Jamestown. Massachusetts’ first two communities, Boston and Salem, were developed around the same time. Both Virginia and Massachusetts were royal colonies.…
While the settlers of the Chesapeake region were motivated primarily by objectives of wealth, the New England puritan settlers were in an entirely different mindset. They sought out and expanded in hopes of dodging sanctified persecution. The puritans spent their days spreading their religion and working to be a spotless society in God’s eyes (Model of Christian Charity, Document A). The New England settlers had finally escaped England’s religious persecution and had formed a new life here, where they could practice freely. As for the Chesapeake region, they were in constant mercantilism mode. Their goals were not to be a perfect society, rather to be a wealthy society. They sought out in developing new technology, ideas and agriculture. The development of Tobacco plants was one of many cash seeking ideas of the Chesapeake region (Document F). The differences between the motives of the two societies are inevitable.…
This essay explains and shows the differences between the Virginia colony and the Massachusetts colony. People all over Europe started coming down to the “new world” (America), they came to the new world for many reasons such as land, food, religion and much more. Before I start to contrast between the 2 colonies I’m going to give a general background on them. Massachusetts was established in 1620 and Virginia was established in 1607. Virginia’s colony was Jamestown and Massachusetts was Salem and Boston.…
The immigrants that settled the colonies of Chesapeake Bay and New England came to the New World for two different reasons. These differences were noticeable in social structure, economic outlook, and religious background. As the colonies were organized the differences were becoming more and more obvious and affected the way the communities prospered. These differences are evident from both written documents from the colonists and the historical knowledge of this particular period in time.…
* Chesapeake: For money. Settlers came to find gold (Document F) The area had fertile soil for farming tobacco. Indentured servants worked for new life. Single men mostly (document C)…
Settlement in the new world occurred for different reasons, which led to the development of two different societies. New Englanders attempted to create a religious Utopia while the members of the Chesapeake created their society based off of economic goals. People of English origin were the main settlers in the two regions even though they were two very distinct societies. They had major differences in ideas, values and settlement strategies, which were led, by stark difference in the economical, political and social dynamics of each civilization. These three aspects were part of the major differential in development that occurred.…
Immigration patterns greatly differed of the north and south regions of the colonies. In the Chesapeake region mostly men, especially younger male siblings who did not get land in England due to primogeniture laws, immigrated to this area for land. However, they served as indentured servants for several years of their lives before obtaining their promised land in the New World. According to the Ship’s List of Emigrants bound for Virginia of 1635, males ranging from the ages of fourteen to forty came to America for opportunity in vast numbers, while a scarce amount of women migrated to this area (Doc. C). In contrast, the New England area was more desireable to families. On March 20, 1635 in the…
The Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies were settled by a majority English population, but, over time, they split into completely contrasting societies. This came to be through different religious ideals, economic discrepancies, and contrasting social classes of people arriving in the New…
By the 1700s the English came to the New World and settled in The Chesapeake and New England regions. The lives of the people settled in these regions were centered on two dissimilar lifestyles. Distinctive differences between these regions were in expectations, beliefs, and social cultures. The differences created a clear cut between North and South. The wide gap between the development of The Chesapeake and New England regions was mainly because of the way their lives were centered. The Chesapeakes were geared around monetary profits and striking it rich, while New Englands focal point was about family and religious freedom.…
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.…
The events leading up to 1700 that occurred in the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies made both of these establishments vastly different. While both the New England and Chesapeake colonies can be separated by their culture, and government and religion, their motivations for colonizing was the most significant factor in differentiating the two.…
Many of the settlers who traveled to the New World were in search of a new life and suffered much social discrimination. There were thousands of people all looking for valuables to take back to England to escape the downcast life they led in society there. In Bacon’s “Manifesto” sent to Virginia Governor Berkley in 1676, Nathaniel Bacon is quoted as saying, “All people in all places where we have yet been can attest our civil, quiet, peaceable behavior…”(Document H). Most of these pioneers in the New World, that were attempting to escape the calamities of society, lived in the Chesapeake region. As shown in Document A, the list of emigrants traveling to Virginia who were mostly young and single men went to the Chesapeake region. This reflects the strong belief in primogeniture in England during that time. Most of these men were younger sons of wealthy families who gave their land to the oldest son. Travel to the New World was a necessity in order for them to flee from this poverty and obtain an improved social stance. Unlike the Chesapeake region, the New England Bay colony had some people of higher social standing, but traveled there for other reasons. Your social class in England highly dictated which colony you would go to in order to live in the New World.…
The majority of the colonists that moved to the Chesapeake region of Maryland and Virginia were laborers, that owed years of work to pay off their expense for relocating to the New World. They consisted of young men for the most part, with only a small number of females in the beginning years. Unfortunately, many of the new colonists didn't even live to see…
Although the settlers of the New England and Chesapeake region were both settled by people of English origin, by the 1700s, they had transformed into very different societies. This was because of a number of reasons. Between the settlers, the New Englanders moved for religious purposes, while Chesapeakes moved for want for material wealth.The people of New England also consisted of more families than the predominantly young male population of the Chesapeake. Their governing styles were also different, New England being more about fairness and equity while their southern neighbors were more concerned with gaining material wealth and not about helping the poorer of their communities.…
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.…