The Chesapeake colony was an agriculturally based economy that used tobacco as their main source of profit and eventually went on to replace indentured servants with African slaves on plantations; they adopted the southern culture of the confederate south, whereas the New England colony used their hands-on labor to industrialize and adopt the northern culture of the union…
During the early settlement of the U.S. by colonists, people were searching for fresh fiscal starts, and for religious freedom. New England was founded for a different reason than the Chesapeake region. The Chesapeake Region was founded in 1607 for the purpose of economic advancement. Many of the Chesapeake settlers traded furs and the growth and export of tobacco. The New England Region was founded in the 1620s for the purpose of religious freedom. The New England Purists were seeking refuge from persecution by the church and the English government. The Purists were a much less economically centralized group of people and relied on their community to survive. This difference in overall…
The Puritan colonies of New England developed in quite a different way from the previous English colonies in Virginia. The people who settled New England led completely different lives and had entirely different values than those of other English settlers. Religion was very important to them and they emigrated from England to the colonies for entirely different reasons than previous settlers. These values and ideas led the Puritans to influence the expansion of their colonies. The Puritan’s value of hard work and education greatly shaped the political, economic, and social growth of New England from 1630 through the 1660’s, but the main contributing factor in development was the importance of religion.…
England in the 1620s was filled with tension between the Puritans and King James I and his son Charles I. Their primary goal for their country was to revive Roman Catholicism and rid of any religions that would not conform; so, they mainly targeted Puritans. This intolerance motivated the Puritans to pursue their economic interests (which later turned into religious interests) and establish a place for themselves in the New England colonies in 1630. What they originally intended was to create a colony in which they could practice their religion freely. They did not think of accepting others. Eventually, their society became just as strict as English society: their political, social, and economic advancements were structured and very much parochial.…
the New World with a very high desire to expand on their empires. England was mostly…
The French and Indian War was a war between the French and the English. It helped create the first attempt at unifying the English colonies in North America. The things that started the war were 1) religion, and 2) walking over the Appalachian Mountains. It was called the French and Indian War because the French were allies with the Huron and Algonquin Indians. The English had allies, too. They were Native Americans from the Ohio River Valley, the almighty Iroquois Nations. This would make sense because the Huron Indians and the Algonquin Indians were old enemies of the Iroquois Nations.…
In result, woman ended up having many husbands. People in this region were often uneducated. In contrast, the people in the New England region were very educated. Schools were set up. Harvard was one of the first schools built to teach people interested in learning. Most people in this region wanted to be educated and were expected to be educated. This is because their government was based on the Bible and in order to understand the Bible, one must be able to read and write. These people were the most literate in the world at that time. When coming from England to the New England region, people often traveled with their families. Men usually had lots of wives. These people were Puritans, whom were very religious. The Puritan ideal is that the family governed in the same way that kings ruled over society. These Pilgrims believed that the Anglican establishment was so corrupt that they must establish their own independent church. This is the reason for their emigration to North America. They wanted to develop a society, a civilization (Doc.…
The French and Indian War changed the fate of America. It caused anger, misunderstanding, and ultimately, the separation of Britain and the colonies. There is a lot of historical evidence that shows the war had a large effect on American colonists.…
Puritans settling in New England lead to the social, economic, and political shaping of Massachusetts. Puritans originally came to New England in order to create a more godly world away from corrupt England. Many Puritans originally didn’t want to settle in America, but after being attacked in England, and seeing how corrupt the Angelicin church was they sought refuge in the new colony. There were many economic opportunities in establishing the colony as well as political and social opportunities. The Puritans started a holy experiment where they could raise their families in a place more holy and pure than England.…
As the civil wars commenced, colonies were founded as a haven for religious persecution back in England. Puritans want a “New England”. Separatists created the Plymouth Colony because they wanted to completely separate from the Church of England. Also they wanted a haven to live peacefully as English subjects and purified Protestants. Moderate Puritans create Massachusetts Bay, because they felt reform was too slow. Persecuted by Charles II and James I previously who felt resentment towards Puritans. “We shall be that city upon a hill” – Winthrop, founded to be a model religious society. Great Migration of Puritans. When there was a Catholic crown. Bloody Mary slaughtered Protestants. Wanted a place for them to create their model society. Connecticut founded by Puritans who wanted more church-government alliance, a religious concern. Maryland, a Catholic Haven In Protestant dominated England, Catholics persecuted. Lord Baltimore founded it for Catholics to have a haven. “Act of Toleration” created, settlers moved there for religious concerns.…
Dating all the way back to the French and Indian War, the American colonists were getting fed up with the British. Britain was trying to thrive through America and the colonists were not having it. Heavy taxation, restriction on civil liberties, British military measures, and the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas were major factors of the rebellion in 1776. The Americans were tired of being under British control and wanted their own rights, rules, and liberties. So the American Revolution began.…
New England settlers fed up with the Church of England made their way to the new world to find spiritual freedom. The New England settlers had a belief that there were other ways to have religion, the way that God intended. The Puritan’s which originated in England was a religion based on a desire to purify itself from the Church of England’s beliefs. The New England colonies also had Pilgrims who were called separatist because of the desire to separate themselves from the Anglican Church. Both Puritans and Pilgrims suffered under the English rule for their different beliefs, and came to the new world which was unspoiled to raise their children without the corruption of old English religious ideas.…
Puritans started to arrive in the New England area during the 1600's. They specifically settles in the areas around Boston. Unlike other people coming to settle in New England, the Puritans came to create a more pure and Christian based society; they did not come for economic purposes. The Puritans wanted a theocratic society, or a government run by religious beliefs. By creating their Christian based society in this way, their ideas and values of the political, economic, and social developments influenced the New England colonies from 1630 to 1660.…
The French and Indian War, part of the overarching global conflict that was the Seven Years War, began in 1754 and officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 . It was a large-scale conflict principally involving the French and British Empires, which took place in the central and northern areas of North America. The war was ostensibly fought over border conflicts between French and British colonists, the latter of which feared influence on their Western and Northern borders which could be used to incite conflict between the colonists and the local Native American tribes. Although the war was a success for the British, in that they claimed large swathes of previously French controlled territory, in the long run the destructive…
This allowed for more of a tolerance of different religions. The Chesapeake colonies had a melting pot of different religions. They allowed Jews to practice freely in their colonies. The Jewish people from Brazil wrote to the Dutch West India to allow them settle in North America they stated, “... the Jewish nation be permitted… to travel, live and traffic there, and with them enjoy liberty on condition of contributing to others,¨(VOF, 20). On the other hand, the New England colonies were not as tolerable as the Chesapeake colonies. The Puritans were a group of people in England to adopt Calvinist teachings when they became unhappy with how the Church of England was too similar to the Catholic religion. They left England for the Jamestown colony, but were blown off course and settled in present-day Massachusetts. There, they established a Puritan colony. Religion played a large role in the social order of the New England colonies. Due to the number of families that emigrated, New England possessed a very patriarchal society. In New England, women were oppressed and not seen as equals due to the Puritan ideals implemented in their society. The…