New England Colonies Dbq Essay
By the 1700’s, a split had occurred along the east coast of North America, an area settled largely by Englishmen. This split occurred for a number of reasons, including different religious ideals, economic discrepancies, and contrasting social classes of people arriving in the New World.
New England and the Chesapeake region were both founded for different things, the first of which being religion. New England, for the most part, was founded for religious reasons. While the Protestant Revolution was going on in their home country of England, those looking for religious freedom were fleeing to the New World to escape prosecution. This caused many of the northern colonies to become more family and religiously centered as more people began to …show more content…
It was more to reimburse the wealthy and those of higher standing in England who had given money to the war efforts on behalf of the New World that hadn’t been remunerated yet. The money was more of an excuse, though, for nobles fearing the violent outbreak of faith-based war going on around them, to flee to a new land that was already well and paid-for for them. The influx of all these wealthy, connected Englishmen to the northern region led it to become a mainly merchant-based region, while the Chesapeake began to settle in a plantation-style farming structure to support themselves and their lifestyle. In the north, however, the aforementioned merchants began to make such large sums of money from their trade that laws had to be put in place to regulate the standard of pay for workmen and traders to be set at the General Court of Connecticut (E).
The Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies were settled by a majority English population, but, over time, they split into completely contrasting societies. This came to be through different religious ideals, economic discrepancies, and contrasting social classes of people arriving in the New
New England and the Chesapeake region were both founded for different things, the first of which being religion. New England, for the most part, was founded for religious reasons. While the Protestant Revolution was going on in their home country of England, those looking for religious freedom were fleeing to the New World to escape prosecution. This caused many of the northern colonies to become more family and religiously centered as more people began to …show more content…
It was more to reimburse the wealthy and those of higher standing in England who had given money to the war efforts on behalf of the New World that hadn’t been remunerated yet. The money was more of an excuse, though, for nobles fearing the violent outbreak of faith-based war going on around them, to flee to a new land that was already well and paid-for for them. The influx of all these wealthy, connected Englishmen to the northern region led it to become a mainly merchant-based region, while the Chesapeake began to settle in a plantation-style farming structure to support themselves and their lifestyle. In the north, however, the aforementioned merchants began to make such large sums of money from their trade that laws had to be put in place to regulate the standard of pay for workmen and traders to be set at the General Court of Connecticut (E).
The Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies were settled by a majority English population, but, over time, they split into completely contrasting societies. This came to be through different religious ideals, economic discrepancies, and contrasting social classes of people arriving in the New