1. The Chesapeake area was blessed with fertile soil and fresh water, and this helped them grow an economy based off of their agricultural product. They had several easily accessible trade routes and were able to import and export good quickly. Chesapeake region had a “cash crop” get rich quickly mentality. Their lives were based more on their liquid assets than on God or family. The first colonists were mainly upper-class men of wealthy families aspiring towards coming to the New World to create a large profit for themselves
New England had rocky soil and many hills. This meant that the New Englanders had to rely on sources other than their crops. Unlike the inhabitants of the Chesapeake area, the founders of the New England colony had motives that were mainly religious rather than…show more content… The Articles of Confederation promoted a decentralized approach to governing, and allowed each state to function almost as if it were a separate country. The result of this was that the states did not function together as a nation, and were divided in their views and systems. Each state's conflicting and independent actions showed that the Articles of Confederation were not meant for the new nation. Shay’s Rebellion raised more concern as the government under the Articles of Confederation was unable to respond as it was too weak.
2. The colonial experience under the English spawned a deep hatred for monarchy and excessive executive power. The Americans were not keen on allowing any one person to hold as much power as the British allowed the King, an idea that explained the colonists’ division of power when creating the Articles of Confederation. This being said, the Americans learned the shortcomings of a decentralized and weak government during their time under the Articles. They saved the ideas of democracy, representation and freedom, using them as a foundation for the Constitution and the Bill of
