The ending of the seventeenth century was an important time for the New England colonies. During this period the young settlements grew like a child would. The colonies sprouted into distinct groups from a combination of nature and nurture. The main differences in the recipe for the colonies were their incentives to bring settlers, their climates ability to support activities, and the people’s solution to making money. These differences led to the divide in the Chesapeake and New England colonies. The colonies were all settled for a reason, but not all for the same. The Chesapeake colonies introduced a headright system to bring people from England, this system granted land to each person. In the New England colonies people came to escape religious persecution in Europe. Groups like the Puritans made Massachusetts, Quakers in Pennsylvania, and freedom of worship in Rhode Island. This attracted people from all over because Chesapeake colonies did not have these rights, and therefore did not develop religiously in a unique way as New England had. On the other hand, New England did not receive as many people looking to strike it rich because the Chesapeake was more attractive for them because they could get lots of land very quickly. These regions were destined to be different because of the people who moved into them. The Chesapeake region …show more content…
The beginning of the divide started with the landowners going to Virginia and Maryland while religious refugees went further north to the more accepting colonies. These two areas allowed for two entirely different economies, one based on trade and another on agriculture. The africans being shipped in to satisfy the workforce needed for the growth of tobacco pushed the chesapeake past the point of no return. These aspects spiraled the colonies into entirely different directions to make them miles apart by