...The name “New England” leads one to assume that the New England Colonies resembled England, while in reality the two places were very different. This name is a geographic and conceptual misnomer as it differed from England in nearly every aspect, examples of colonies that resemble a “New” England would be the ones located in the Chesapeake area. New England had a society that differed from England largely due to the motives of the settles. Each of the settlers wanted to leave England permanently to start a new life. An example is the Puritans who moved to America to preserve their way of life rather than adhere to England’s. This led them to form a society different from that of their home countries. However, the Chesapeake colonies such as...
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...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...
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...During the 1700s New England and the Chesapeake region were two different regions but were from the same English ethnicity. They were different because of three factors social, economic and political factors. New England consisted of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island while the Chesapeake region only made up of Virginia and Maryland. Documents 2, 6, and 7 show how how emigrants to the new regions impacted people. Document 2 shows a ship’s list of emigrants bound for New England. It shows families wealthy enough to travel across the Atlantic to settle in New England. Document 6 explains how people were classed on the ships. POor people had to pay much more for food in contrast to the people who seeked gold,...
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...lasted, but it nearly did not. Of the 104 men and boys who landed on May 1607, only 38 were still alive by January 1608, when 100 new colonists arrived. Things continued to be so grim that in the winter of 1609-1610, later known as the "starving time," survivors resorted to cannibalism (Ghose), and the population of settlers in Virginia shrank from 300 to 90 (60 in Jamestown) ("Jamestown Chronicle Timeline"). Yet in 1620 the Pilgrims voluntarily left England for Virginia. During their first winter in the New World, half of them died. Meanwhile, hundreds more settlers came to Virginia. What...
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...The Southern colonies had its first permanent settlement in the year of 1607 when immigrants settled in present day North Carolina(Virginia.) (Brinkley)In 1619 Virginia became known for the first colony to have an elected legislature, known as the House of Burgess. Most of the people that lived in these colonies where Anglicans and those who weren’t had to leave. (Brinkley) The colonies that made up the southern included; Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas (later split into North & South in 1729.) The southern colonies where founded by the British in 16th and 17th centuries. (U.S.History.org, The Southern Colonies) The weather was humid and warm with hot summers, and long growing seasons. (Brinkley) It was also often rainy and cold. These southern colonies turned to cash crops (indigo dye, rice, Tabaco) with Tabaco becoming the most important. (U.S.History.org, The Southern Colonies) Slaves and servants were very much important to the southern colonies, as that’s who most crops where done by. Settlers traveled from England in order to seek economic prosperity that England lacked. (Staff)...
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...Chesapeake and New England Colonies: A Comparison Beginning in the 1600s, England colonized the newly discovered Americas. numerous groups came settled in two regions, the Chesapeake and New England. From the beginning, both had very separate motivation and unique identities. These motivations affected the colonies in every way, including economically, socially, and politically. The Chesapeake and New England attracted different types of settlers and, by 1700, the populations differed enormously. Clearly the Chesapeake and the New England regions did differ in numerous ways. These differences included population, religion, and economy. But also the differences were on a wide-scale range involving almost every aspect of the society, they all sprouted from one initial difference between the two: the very reason the colonists came. Life in colonial America was difficult for all, but more so for some than others. While some colonists struggled to scrape by, some managed to live well and be happy. It is very apparent that health, family, and growth helped New England to be more prosperous and a more enjoyable place to live than in its southern neighbor, Chesapeake Bay. History has proven that these factors have a major effect on the quality of life for people, and this instance is no exception. New England New England was north of the Chesapeake, and included Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven. In Puritan New England, a patriarchal...
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...wanted a part of it too. However there are many differences between the movie and the history and also some information from Smiths own writing as well. According to the Association of the Preservation of Virginias website, on May 14,1607, the Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island to establish the Virginia English colony on the banks of the James River, 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay....
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...the Chesapeake and New England colonies were established by people of the English origin, by the 1700’s they had become vastly different, socially, politically and economically. The Chesapeake colonies interests revolve around earning profit and tobacco cultivation, unlike the New England colonies who are focused on religion, mainly the Puritan religion. Socially, the Chesapeake colonies consisted of mostly or almost all men, who were pretty young. In a Ship’s List of Emigrants Bound for Virginia, the reader can infer that the men on the ship to Virginia are indentured servants because it reads,” … per examination by the minister of Gravesend touching their conformity to the Church discipline of England, and have taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy.” In the Chesapeake...
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...By the eighteenth century, two regions of English colonization in the New World varied in great measure. Diversity of the New England and Jamestown colonies came to existence during the early development of the colonies. Motivations for migrating to the New World differentiated the two regions; religious unrest pushed for settlement in New England whereas the desire for economic prosperity pulled for settlement in Jamestown. Contrasting motivations for encampment in the New World created a colony that almost failed and a colony that thrived. Jamestown almost failed as a colony because their motives were driven by individuality and greed while New England thrived as a colony because they were driven by a unified religious vision of a virtuous...
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...The Southern Colonies made up of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The first permanent settlement in North America was Jamestown, Virginia Southern Colonies in North America were established by England (later Great Britain), during the 17th and 18th centuries and consisted of the Province of Maryland, the Colony of Virginia, the Province of North Carolina, the Province of South Carolina, and the Province of Georgia. The English started the Southern Colonies. The Southern Colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Jamestown, Virginia was the first successful Southern Colony in America. The surrounding area was full of disease-carrying mosquitoes and the people who came...
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...Although the majority of the North American East Coast was settled primarily by English during the 17th century, the way of life and development politically, economically, and socially greatly differed, depending on where one had settled. The New England and Chesapeake colonies, both primarily comprised of English settlers, contrasted in that of their motivation for settlement, as well their style of governance, allowing for the creation and development of two distinct societies. The New England colonies, mainly composed of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, consisted of groups that had essentially settled for religious reasons, mainly the Puritans, and Pilgrims. In the Chesapeake colonies, composed of Virginia and Maryland, reasons for settlement mainly alluded to economic advancements and prosperity. The main dividing factors that caused the difference and distinction between the two societies were not limited to the reason for settlement, but in fact were also heavily by the social makeup of the settlers, which varied based on the motivation of the settlements as well. The New England colonies settlement was fundamentally based on religion. The settlers, possessing strong ties to religion, had left England behind due to conflicting views with the Anglican Church. Puritans led their lives based on strong beliefs, such as predestination, believing God already determined belief that one being saved. As they settled, they believed that God had expected...
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... * What was the Columbian Exchange? How did the Columbian Exchange affect Europe? How did it affect North America? The Columbian Exchange is basically understand as the exchange in foods, animals, plants as well as diseases between the New World (North America) and the Old World (Europe) followed after the discovery of America by Columbus. The Columbian Exchange affected both world in many ways. For Europe, it brings avocado, potato, tomato, corn, beans, tobacco, turkeys as positive effects and the negative effect are diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis. For North America, positive effects: coffee beans, olive, banana, sugar cane, grape, sheep, pig, horse. And the negative effects impact North America are: smallpox, chickenpox, measles etc… * Name four groups of people who migrated to British North America in the 17th century. Why did each of those groups migrate? Virginia Settlement – these settlers known as the first English settlement to migrated in North America. They prefer to seek opportunities, own some land in this new world and make their own business. Later on tobacco was introduced and the majority of them planned to grow tobacco as it’s the most successful cash crop to become rich. Puritans of New England – their main reason is to...
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...New England versus the southern colonies, why were they so different. How where they the same. What makes them so different? For starters,The New England colonies were separatist that started there own communities, living the religious dream life. The Virginia colonist were money making plantations maned by indentured man servants, Woman were scarce. This made these people very different from each other. There cultures and government system were different as well, which was a example to Eastern civilization on what could run better. Relations with the natives was seemingly okay at first but conflict did arise for both parties. The two colonies had a very distinct similarity, they both had bad relations with the natives. The colonist were invaders...
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...1993 DBQ Essay In the 1600s there was still much to uncover in the New World. People from all over set out to discover what they could, and settle in this unknown territory. The English colonists came to the New World and settled in the New England and Chesapeake regions. The New England colonies developed differently than the Chesapeake colonies due to their differing motivations for settlement, social systems, and economic emphasis. In the early 17th Century the Puritans settled in New England, forming the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts settlers were first and foremost interested in religion. They had come to America to separate themselves from the English Anglican Church and to be able to practice their beliefs freely. As shown by Document B, the first member listed - and therefore the most prominent figure - on one of the ships bound for New England was a minister, underlying the importance the Puritans placed on religion. Accordingly, Document A shows how John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, desired to achieve the ideal Puritan city, a “city upon a hill,” that provided other Puritan towns a perfect example of what to be like. The settlers wanted to create a permanent religious settlement with a strong sense of a Puritan community in which everyone helped out and was kind to one another. Their shared interest in religion enabled them to get along well with each other and keep their colony organized, with documents such as the Articles of...
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...New England and the Chesapeake had social, political, and economic variations due to differences in the way their societies developed. It is curious that even though they were settled by similar people of English origin, by the 1700s the regions had evolved into distinct societies. It was these differences that made pre-revolutionary America able to fight against a common enemy, but these differences also divided an early nation ,making it defy simplicity. The first(and most apparent) contrast between New England Colonies and the Chesapeake is that they were both “founded” on different principles. It is easy to think that America was founded by a single group of people, but that is not the case at all. New England was founded on a desire for purification of the church, hence the title puritans.Their leader, John Winthrop, believed his newfound community could be a city on a hill, as he said, “The eyes of all people are us...”(Document A). The puritans were religious fanatics, and one example of this is the Salem Witch Trials in the late 17th century. These were unfair persecutions(of mostly women), of people who the puritans thought to be witches. Their social norms were not the only thing they based on their religion, but their laws too. They also used religion as a moral guideline. In the Articles of...
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