Relationship Between New England And Chesapeake Colonies

     Unlike the Chesapeake, the New England colonies were greatly interested in their long-term colonization efforts. A man by the name of John Winthrop led the Puritans, which composed the New England colonies. He believed that their colony was “a city on the hill,” as described in the book of Matthew. The Puritans were a fervent religious colony, where the church was never disputed. There were some historical cases when the Puritan people would speak out and therefore speak out against the church; the story of Anne Hutchinson was just such a case. She held weekly meetings in her home where her and her husband would interpret the bible for their followers. In addition she noted that not all the clergy would be saved and attacked many of their teachings. She was banished and took her husband and seven kids to Road Island where religion was not as strict. The New England colonies survived on exporting lumber, grain and the production of ships. The Puritans wanted to be the model society; they did

Another major difference between the two colonies was their religious views. The New England colony did not agree with The Church and decided to start their own more pure way of religion in the New World, hence the name Puritans, this was one of the main reasons they embarked on a journey to America (DOC D). The freedom of religion was a promised attribute that England used as part of their propaganda to lure people over to America. The Chesapeake Bay settlers still followed the way of The Church and did not intend to purify themselves in any way. As shown in the documents God was more important to the New England colonists than he was to the Chesapeake Bay colonists. The New England colonists mention how they will incorporate God into their lives in almost every document that they have written. Contrary to that the Chesapeake Bay colonists are not forming their lives around religion they are trying to make a life in the New World for the sole purpose of becoming wealthy and could care less about their religion.

Question: Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur?

New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, but by the 1700’s they were two distinct societies. They differed politically, economically, and socially, and these differences stemmed from when people first arrived in the colonies to how the colonies grew over time.

Although the Chesapeake and New England colonies were the earliest English colonies to flourish in the New World, they were both extremely different in the ways that they developed. Similarities between the colonies can be found, but the colonies were mostly different. The colonies differed most in religion, society, culture, economy, and their relationships with the American Indians of the region. The reasons for such differences can be understood by realizing that the colonies were settled by incredibly different people who possessed different cultures, religious beliefs, and motivations for settling in their respective colonies in the first place. The Chesapeake and New England colonies had similarities and differences in their development, including how each colony affected nearby American Indians. Their differences and similarities can be understood by analyzing each colony’s geography, economy, religions, and cultures.

Some of the most populous colonies were the ones situated in the Chesapeake and New England areas. Although these colonies were both settled by the English and had other key similarities, there were also many differences between them. The New England and Chesapeake colonies both had an aristocracy that governed over them, and had frequent issues concerning the Native Americans that previously inhabited the lands. However, their political and economic systems were considerably different. Chesapeake had an oligarchy whose main export was tobacco, while New England had a theocracy whose exports included timber, fur, and fish. Therefore, although the colonies had similarities their differences outweighed the resemblances.

New England was a refuge for religious separatists leaving England, while people who immigrated to the Chesapeake region had no religious motives. As a result, New England formed a much more religious society then the Chesapeake region. John Winthrop states that their goal was to form "a city upon a hill", which represented a "pure"

With the different types of people being sent to each settlement, both had different objectives and outcomes. New England from the very beginning was determined to work together for two goals: to preach and to follow the ways of God. The had to become tightly knitted as one and do everything from mourn to dance with one another. The New England colonies or the Massachusetts Bay colony in this case acted as a “city upon a hill” where everyone else especially God was watching their every movement. If they did false against God then they

The Chesapeake settlers learned how to plant and harvest food while maintaining local allies with the Powhatan Indians. They built their own homes an developed a government system that mirrored England's. The maintained religious views from The Church of England and practiced justices like that of England. While the Chesapeake's practiced religion from the England churches, the settlers in New England were fighting for religious freedom and separation from the Catholic, Roman and England churches. They began developing individual churches and forced the Indians into religion right along with them. They were eventually pushed into an economic recession due to harassment from the Church of England. Pushing through with idealism for religion, the individual churches taxed the townsmen to pay for the church and

By the 1700’s, the New England and the Chesapeake had developed very divergent societies.This can be marked from the very beginning . The New England emigrants were purely religious and migrated to the New World in very large families. In comparison to the Chesapeake emigrants who were originally discovered during their search for profit and later continued as a slave supported colony. The emigrants in the Chesapeake were mainly lone men who left their families. Although both regions were settled largely by the people of England, they both had evolved into different communities, due to mainly reasons involving the reason for settlement, migration patterns and geography.

The New England economy was not based on agriculture or crops. Instead its economy focused more on fishing, lumbar, fur trading, and small farming. “Whereas a great cry of oppression is heard among us, and that principally pointed at workmen and traders, which is hard to regulate without a standard for pay, it is therefore ordered that, . . .[prices and wages] be duly set at each of our General Courts annually” (Doc. E). The New England colonies struggled economically due to wage and price regulations that were being controlled by England. England controlled wages and price regulations since it had a royal government that was directly ruled by the English monarchy. “We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill” (Doc A). They believed that they had a covenant with God, an agreement to build a holy society that would be a model for humankind. They were more concerned with religion as opposed to the Chesapeake colonies who desired

Though the Chesapeake and New England colonies were both settled by the English, by the early 1700’s they had grown into two distinct societies. The Chesapeake’s land was covered in miles upon miles of cash crops like tobacco and indigo, and people lived and worked in plantations of varying sizes. New England was made up of many small towns of subsistence farmers and a few large port cities. While tens of thousands of African slaves were shipped to the Chesapeake region, few were put to work in New England. Important differences in reasons the colonies were founded, treatment of Natives, and location made the colonies develop into very different societies.

In the 1700’s the English colonies had gained their footing each different than the other. There developed a few different region in the colonies. One, the New England region was the northern colonies and another being the Chesapeake which include Virginia and Maryland. The main reasons why the two groups of colonies developed very differently are geography, their relationship with the natives and motives for coming to the New World. The Chesapeake and New England colonies were separated by hundreds of miles.

Religion was not as highly prioritized. The Anglican Church, established in the Chesapeake Bay region, was a lot of times not popularly attended.

The Chesapeake originally originated from Europe like the New Englanders. The Chesapeake colonies included Maryland, Pennsylvania, and both New Jerseys’ (West and East). The first colony to advance and flourish was Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown was founded by 104 settlers to a peninsula along the James River lead by Captain John Smith. The newcomers came to the New World in hopes to find cures for their many diseases including malaria, dysentery, and typhoid. These diseases knocked off ten years of the newcomer's life spans. They also hoped to find a northwest passage to Asia and any goods including silver and gold that they could return back with to their homeland, so they could make a profit. The newcomers pivoted towards the Powhatan Indians, who helped them make a living out of corn and