Although people from England settled in the Chesapeake and New England area‚ the regions evolved into two distinct societies due to their differences in religion‚ politics‚ and especially‚ economies by 1700. The religion of the Chesapeake and New England areas differed. Because New Englanders came to escape religious persecution‚ one would think that it would become a land of complete tolerance. This was not the case‚ though. The New Englanders were very religious-based‚ and considered themselves
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first English settlers began arriving in America in the 1700’s they mainly settled in two regions - New England and the Chesapeake. Even though both groups of people were English by origin‚ they had developed two very different societies. Each group had it’s own beliefs and expectations of what they will find in this new world‚ and the results of their settlement were very different as well. When the ship headed for Virginia left England in 1635‚ it was filled mostly with men in their twenties
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The Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by people of English descent‚ but by 1700‚ they had become two distinctly different societies. They had evolved so differently‚ mainly because of the way that the settlers followed their religion‚ their way of conducting politics and demographics in the colonies. Even though the settlers came from the same homeland: England‚ each group had its own reasons for coming to the New World and different ideas planned for the colonies. On his way to the
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During the 1700s‚ English immigrants and explorers began settling in the Americas. They began developing the Chesapeake region‚ Middle Colonies‚ and the New England Colonies Out of these three‚ the New England and the Chesapeake Region were the largest. The Chesapeake Colony‚ which included Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ and New England Colonies‚ which included the Massachusetts Bay‚ were mostly settled for religious freedom‚ economic opportunities‚ and adventures. People began leaving their land because of
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social structure‚ family nature and society itself the diversities in the New England and Chesapeake cultures grew immensely. Some differences proved to be too much of a challenge for some and prosperous for others. New England families kept the traditional family structure known as a nuclear family‚ consisting of the head of the household‚ the father‚ mother and their children. The religious traditions carried over from England by these families were easier to practice because of the support of immediate
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The colonies of New England and Chesapeake sprouted from a common origin and spoke the same tongue yet had little in common with each other. Despite geographic and demographic differences in the Chesapeake and New England colonies‚ the most influential factor in determining why each colony developed differently was each colony’s motives. It was through this motivational difference that distinctly divided the New World into the North and South. When immigrants fled form England due to religious
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Comparison between the Colonies of Chesapeake and New England This essay will be analyzing and comparing & contrasting the colonies of Chesapeake and New England. This paper’s main concern is how these colonies are so dramatically different and what aspects of the colonies make them so. This paper will argue considerable differences in settling and motives to settle had a dramatic effect on the initial success of the colonies. Chesapeake had a tremendous death rate of 65-percent of their original
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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
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The Chesapeake and New England regions harbored two different societies though each region had a large population that was of English decent this was due to many reasons the two societies settled in the Chesapeake and New England regions. For example the settlers in the New England region migrated to the Americas to escape the Church of England and to be their own church that would be based on their ideals. The settlers in the Chesapeake region were there on behalf of the Church of England as well
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into two completely different societies. There are several reasons why differences in development occurred between the Chesapeake and New England regions. Differences can be seen socially‚ economically‚ and politically. First‚ the biggest differentiation between these regions is social. The main difference is their goals of settling. In the list of immigrants bound for New England‚ more than six families and their servants are listed. The migrating of whole families exemplifies an intention of permanent
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