During the seventeenth century, people from Europe traveled to America to colonize it. The Puritans built their homes in Massachusetts and the Cavaliers settled in Virginia. Although they both came from England, their cultures varied in three main areas: their social ways, their speech, and how they learned.
The Puritans’ and Cavaliers’ social ways varied drastically. Many of the British middle class Puritans came to America. These townspeople were extremely skilled and very literate. The Cavaliers came from the higher British classes, the Royalists, and the lower British classes, who migrated to America and became indentured servants. The Cavaliers were less skilled, less literate, were country men and farmers, and traveled to America alone.