...Essay The New England Colonies and the Chesapeake Bay was once settled by the same people however evolved into two distinct societies. All the settlers who arrived to these region were trying to get away from the Civil War which was dividing England and also were trying to escape poverty. The New England Colonies mostly had people looking for a stable community and were very religious. The Chesapeake Bay mostly cared about wealth and their social rank. Due to these reasons the regions began to vary and so did people. The differences in development occurred due to the the difference in priority, while one society,The New England Colonies, focused on family and community, the other society, the Chesapeake Bay, focused on wealth and social ranking...
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...Massachusetts Bay colony vs Jamestown What has made some colonies more successful than others? This, what would seem to be hard question, actually can be answered in a couple of different reasons. Such as Geography, goals, number of colonist, disease and water purity, and other reasons. The Massachusetts Bay colony was more successful for the beginning. At the beginning of each settlement, New England already had the upper hand over the Chesapeake because New England had 20,000 settlers versus the 5,000 going to the chesapeake (doc 7). This is an advantage to the New England colonies because, the more people there are in a colony, the more people can work towards creating a strong settlement and not dependent on limited resources such as tobacco. It is better to branch out like New England did and create more opportunities for the settlement. Not only is having a lot of settlers important but also keeping them alive is another key component. Jamestown already started off with low number compared to New England, but not only that but they had a high mortality rate. This is from multiple reasons, a couple being the deadly fresh and saltwater mix...
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...colonizing North America, they settled in the modern-day southern state Virginia. However, when The United States declared independence, the Northern colonies had a much larger population than the southern ones. In this essay, I will explore the question “What were the push and pull factors that caused more European colonists to settle in the northern colonies instead of the southern ones during the 17th century?” to find out why the population distribution was so unequal. The first source is the book The Atlantic Migration, written by Professor Marcus Lee Hansen in 1942. Hansen was the son of a Danish immigrant and a Norwegian immigrant and a professor of history at the University of Illinois. He conducted research on the history of American immigration for four years to write this Pulitzer-prize winning book. It is a secondary source, which allows Hansen to look at emigration and immigration factors from hindsight. The content of this book is valuable because it mentions the push factors in Europe, the pull factors in each colony, and why people would want to leave for...
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...political philosophies were different- all possibly rooted in their allegiance to the Crown back home. To the North, or New England Colonies, the settlers occupied Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, Rhode Island, New Haven, and Connecticut. And to the South, or Chesapeake Region, the settlers occupied Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. Now, let’s get into the nitty-gritty; the “how and why” these two regions were so different. First thing is first. Chesapeake settlers had a majority allegiance to England’s values. These people, by and large, represented the English establishment back home. So, what does this mean? Well, that...
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...in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives, others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy, religion, and motives for colonial expansion. The colonists of the New England area possessed a very happy and healthy life. This high way of living was due in part to better farming, a healthier environment, and a high rate of production because of more factories. The colonists of the Chesapeake Bay region, on the other hand, led harder lives compared to that of the colonists of New England. The Chesapeake Bay had an unhealthy environment, bad eating diets, and intolerable labor. The colonists had different reasons for settling in these two distinct regions. The New England region was a more religiously strict yet diverse area compared to that of the Chesapeake Bay. The development of religion in the two regions came from separate roots. After Henry VIII and the Roman Catholic Church broke away from each other, a new group of English reformers was created called the Puritans. The Puritans came from protestant backgrounds, after being influenced by Calvinistic ideas. When their reforms were thwarted by King James I of England, they fled to the New World in what is now known as the "Great Migration". The Puritans were then joined by...
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...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 reason why there was no major witchcraft scares in the Chesapeake colonies and no uprisings like the Bacon's Rebellion in New England was because of the dissimilarities between the two colonies and their reason for traveling to America. Firstly, the whole Salem Witch Trials began in 1692, because Puritans believed that the physical world was full of supernatural forces including witches. Because of people's strong religious beliefs they wanted to cleanse the world of unnatural forces. This was done by killing anyone who was suspected of having an "unruly spirit" Secondly, the Bacon's Rebellion began when a rebellious Nathaniel Bacon wanted to gain vengeance on the Native Americans seeing as the people in Chesapeake main reasons for being...
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...1. What were the colonial goals of the Spanish, French, and Dutch? How successful were they in achieving those goals? The Success of the Spanish, French, and Dutch colonies at reaching their colonial goals was drastically different. In Spanish colonies a starting mission to find gold left Spaniards empty-handed. They started to build their empire during the mid-1500s, and in doing so made attempts to convert the Indians. This caused for a lot of religious tension, as the Indians never completely converted over. The Spanish were not completely successful in their initial goals specifically because of the defensive Pueblos, particularly during Pope’s rebellion of 1680. The French were less successful in creating a colony but only marginally so....
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...Richard Frethorne’s “Our Plantation is Very Weak” provides the most accurate depiction of indentured servitude in North America’s colonies. George Alsop’s account of indentured servitude seems a little too good to be true supported by the following evidence – his account is written about conditions in Chesapeake, how his account is portrayed in a third person point of view, and comparisons of working conditions for indentured servants. Conditions in the Chesapeake Bay area were not the cleanliest – it was riddled with a high mortality rate from diseases such as malaria, dysentery, and typhoid. Not only did disease slow economic progression in the Chesapeake colonies, but an economic depression hit the colonies hard in 1660, and lasted till...
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...arduous role of being a homemaker, mother to children, and many other domestic tasks. Agriculture, specifically tobacco in the Chesapeake Region, shaped the identity in the South through land, labor, and social distinctions. When colonists first arrived in the New World, they had no knowledge of their surroundings. The Native Americans were...
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...While the majority of people who originally settled in both New England and the Chesapeake region were English, the people who settled in the South came with very different ideals and values compared to those who settled the North, which is the most evident cause for why the two areas quickly became distinctly different. There are three fundamental reasons for the variation of New England and the Chesapeake region. One of these reasons is the differing social structure by which the English immigrated to the colonies, and the way in which that structure was maintained once they settled in America. The other rationale is the development and organization of the government in New England and the Chesapeake region. These two things are both caused by the most important motivating factor for the evolution of two distinct societies in America, Religion. Religion of the settlers coming to America has caused the differences in the two societies, and is the reason why New England and the Chesapeake region developed the way that they did, in a way very different from on another. A major distinguishing factor in the difference between New England and the Chesapeake region is the presence of religion, including its role in daily life and the amount of religious diversity of an area. Because the original settlers in New England were the Pilgrims and the Puritans, religion was immediately an essential part of the lives of New Englanders, and played an important part in the development of communities...
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...Discuss the motives and “success” of England’s colonies vs. Spain and France. England wanted more colonies, but ended up the slowest of all Atlantic powers to start colonizing and exploring the New World which doesn’t make it very successful, but it did win the fight against Spain which solidified Protestantism in England. When England got to the Americas, it was not successful in colonizing and most of their small colonies that were formed, failed. Spain on the other hand, was more successful and had better, stronger, and more populated colonies. 2. Why were so many English coming to the Americas? Many English people were coming to America because there was a rise in the production of cotton and the English were very successful in establishing...
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...Roanoke Island Colony On the island of Roanoke, a group of colonists disappeared. No one knows how or why they disappeared. The only thing they found were two carvings one in a tree and another in a gate post. One said, “Croatoan” and the other just said “Cro.” Croatoan was the name of a Native American tribe not far away. Could the Croatoans be responsible for the disappearances. Roanoke Island has many mysteries that still confuse people to this day. There were a group of men that came before the colonists, they spent time searching for gold instead of growing food and building shelter. Fifteen men stayed and watched the settlement, but when the second group, of one hundred and fifteen, arrived they found bones of what was the fifteen men. They also found evidence that the settlement was attacked. After this gruesome discovery they still had to settle there....
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...Why did they come to the western hemisphere? Spain came to the western hemisphere in search of a direct trade route to China. Seeing how Spain prospered from their transoceanic empire, France wanted a piece in the wealth that America offered. Britain came to the western hemisphere in hopes to weaken the Spanish empire. In addition, the West Country men hoped to resolve England’s economic problems by exporting beggars to the colony of Virginia. These beggars would work in Virginia by exporting goods back to England in hopes to mend the economic woes back home. Where did they settle? The Spanish settled in present-day Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, Mexico, Peru, and the islands of the Caribbean. The specific settlements are the following: Hispaniola, Mexico City, St. Augustine, New Mexico, and Santa Fe. The French stationed themselves along the Mississippi and St....
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...Traveling across a vast ocean and landing in a foreign and an entirely unfamiliar region in the early 17th century, the English settlers faced several challenges with the Indians that inhabited the land. Having little knowledge of the land they were now in, the English battled a variety of difficulties to survive with little resources to combat hardships. Among the numerous challenges that the English faced was the predominate issues of sustaining peace with the Indians. This challenge distinctively presents itself through two separate Indian leaders: Powhatan in the Chesapeake region and Metacom in New England. When comparing the two regions and the existing relationships between the English and the Indians, it becomes evident that power, communication, and conduct played a significant role in whether the territory would see bloodshed or peace....
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