The settlements of New England and Chesapeake, though both settled by the English, differ greatly from one another. One of the main differences between the two regions was the reason they were settled, their different beliefs in religion and politics, and their different environments were also factors that affected the way they were developed.

While New England was mostly founded for an escape from religious persecution, the settlement of the Chesapeake colonies was part of a plan to find gold and make more money for England. The immigrants sent to New England were mostly family and their servant, shown in the Ship’s List of Emigrants by John Porter, the Deputy Clerk. (document b) The fact that group of women and children were sent to the colonies and not only men showed that they wanted to settle in America for good, not just for a few years to make money. The immigrants sent to the Chesapeake colonies however, mostly consisted of men with very few women. This, recorded in the Ship’s list of immigrants, showed that the men were sent for working purposed opposed to settling down and starting a …show more content…
New England wanted to be a “city upon a hill”. They wanted to be superior to others and looked up to. In his sermon John Winthrop said “We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all the people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.” (document a) John Winthrop and the majority of the colonists in New England were Puritans, and although they came to the colonies for religious freedom, they had to tolerance for other religions. In Virginia, one half of the Chesapeake colonies, most of the colonists were Anglicans and in Maryland the majority of the colonists were Catholics or