Cheapeake Vs New England Colonies

The Americas, once discovered were a vast pot of wonders for the European people’s .The eastern coast of the Americas, settled by Englishmen searching for a new start. But in the end they turned into two very separate distinct societies. New England area with fewer opportunities for vast wealth, but attracted more of a family setting. While Chesapeake Bay area had a very high mortality rate but was more appealing to the average man for the chance of vast wealth.
New England had been founded by the puritans for religious freedom from the very Anglican English culture. The Puritans claimed that the Anglican Church was to slow to reform and wasn’t different enough from the Roman Catholic Church. But this very strict religious colony would create some very strong dissidents. Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams as a protest to their strict religious guidelines. While the Chesapeake was founded for more economic reasons. In the beginning many starved and mortality was very high because many men placed finding gold or riches before feeding themselves. Up until the cultivation of tobacco by John Rolfe the entire colony had really been is a place to go hope then die. But with the cultivation of tobacco it gave the colony a new place which to pull wealth from. New England however could never be exceedingly successful in agriculture due to the climate they were located in. They had very poor nutrient value in the soil so they could not sustain excess crop.
The New England colony from the founding had been a more democratic political background. Also there towns were set up in more of a way that our towns would be set up in the modern day. Compact with meeting places towards the middle of the town. Because it was, more compact and based on religion the farms were smaller therefore the New Englander’s didn’t have any use for slavery or indentured servants. While New England scaled better to more industry. While in the Chesapeake it was legislatively owned by the