Compare And Contrast Chesapeake And New England Colonies

The New England colonies include New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The Chesapeake colonies include Virginia and Maryland. These colonies were primarily settled by the english, but in about one hundred years later the New England, and Chesapeake colonies have became very different. These two sets of colonies have very different social, economic, and political structures. First of all they were very distinct economically. The Chesapeake colonies wealth mainly came from big plantations. The main crop that they grew was tobacco, but they also farmed other crops like indigo and rice. On the other hand the New England colonies mainly relied on fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding. The New England colony people did farm but it was just to maintain their own family. Furthermore these two sets of colonies had different social lives. The New England colonies mostly had big families and people of all ages. On the contrary the Chesapeake colonies had a majority of young men looking to become rich, although there was many people of other ages. The New England people were heavily influenced by the Puritan religion, it is said it was a part of every aspect of
The New England colonies were more democratic. They had town meetings in which they participated. They also established schools which were required for every town with fifty or more families. The women's rights were very harsh with them having to give up property upon marriage and they didn't have much liberty. On the other hand the Chesapeake was a bit different with the legislative being largely controlled by the aristocrats. They were not big on the system of education all they wanted was big plantations. Women's rights were better in these colonies the reason being that their husbands had a very short life on average, Women were able to marry again, and kept the inheritance from their