Compare And Contrast New England And The Middle Colonies

In the early America colonies, each colony was largely settled by people of English origin. Although the majority of the colony founders were generally from similar areas, the colonies were all different. Two regions like this were the New England region and the Chesapeake region. New England consisted of the states Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Chesapeake consisted of Virginia and Maryland. Although the regions were very close to each other on a map, by the 1700’s both regions had evolved into two very distinct societies. This was due to the colonists reasons fro coming to the New World, their belief systems, the colonists themselves, and the geography.

New England consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. While the southern colonies were Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. Even though both of them were in the New World they differ religiously, economically, socially and politically. Both, New England and Southern colonies, made an impact on the development of culture.

Religion has shaped the colonial society in many ways because one of the reasons to leave England was religious persecution. The New England colonies overall are more strict in their religious practices, like the Puritan Massachusetts Bay, but there is some tolerance in places like Rhode Island. The Chesapeake region is less influenced by religion but they do have the Catholic Maryland. Although the Chesapeake colonies were founded for economic reasons, the New England colonies had a society more based off of religion through government, schooling and families. Therefore, the New England region was more heavily influenced by religion in society.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an exciting period of time for the thirteen British colonies that would eventually become The United States of America. This time period saw the development of the colonies into self-sufficient entities, which would ultimately lead to the American Revolution. Although every colony was unique, there were similarities in the colonies that were close to each other geographically. Today, the colonies are grouped together into the New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. The New England, Middle, and Southern colonies had both similarities and differences regarding their political, economic, social, and religious

Although both the New England Colonies (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake Colonies (Virginia and Maryland) were both settled by people of English origin, by 1700 they were both very distinct for a multitude of reasons; Three of which being, their economics, African Slave population, and their life expectancies.

In the early seventeenth century, the English began to establish colonies in the New World. The colonies in New England consisted of New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. While, the colonies making up the Chesapeake region were Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Given that the New England and Chesapeake region were both largely settled by those of English origin, by the 1700 they had evolved into two distinct societies because of the contrast in their geographical locations, their political structure, and their social hierarchy.

* New England was focused on family and religion mostly. They don’t live apart like the Southern Colonies and the South were also very competitive with agriculture.

Puritans and Pilgrims settled in the New England colonies of Massachusetts, Rode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. The Puritans came to seek religious freedom and new settlements and to escape the religious persecution they were facing in England. The colonies in New England had sandy coasts with assessable ports, forest hills, and flat woodlands. The soil was thin and rocky which was bad for farming. Lumbering, trading, shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling were all common occupations in the New England colonies. Slavery was allowed In the New England colonies, however very few people had slaves. The soil made it difficult to grow crops, so most colonist had small independent farms they could care for on their own, the colonist only grew enough food to feed their families and didn't' have enough to feed slaves. (https://prezi.com/vnfchvubifzb/the-new-england-middle-and-southern-colonies/) The New England colonist was self-governed. The government was highly influenced by religion. When New England sailed over, they found a developed region with a lot of Native Americans. The English and Native Americans didn't get along very well. The English people thought Native Americans were inferior on how they lived. The English people got farming and other skills from the Native people. The four Middle Colonies were New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. English Quakers originally settled in the Middle Colonies. People from France, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Finland,

During the colonial era, England founded the 13 colonies. The New England colonial region was established for religious freedom. (Document 1). On the other hand the Southern colonial was settled for money, gold and other riches. There are many unique differences and similarities between New England and the Southern geography, economy and culture. New England and the South had many different philosophies that helped to shape their ways of life.

During the 17th century, England underwent many social and economic pressures that generated two regions known as the Chesapeake and New England. Despite the fact that both regions were made up English in search for a better life, they shared completely separate identities. The differences between these regions were caused by the two groups of new settlers who had different ways living their day to day lives. Both regions attracted entirely different types of settlers. With these many differences, the colonies had been affected economically, socially, and politically.

In New England, the population was consisted primarily of English and white, with the Congregational Church in the past built up. Strongly religious families, including Puritans, Quakers, and Catholics made up a huge rate of the populace. In the Chesapeake, the population that stood out was of dominant black slaves. With the increase in the tobacco business, estate proprietors were heavily dependent on the labor of slaves and indentured servants. Slave exchange itself turned into a main industry.

Unlike Middle and Southern colonies, New England came here mostly for religion and to escape the Church of England. Although it is true that some people in Southern and Middle colonies came to practice their own religion, most colonies just wanted a piece of land in America because it was a status symbol back then. One of the colonies that stood out from the rest was Pennsylvania. William Penn founded a very open colony with much religious tolerance. He sent flyers out to advertise in Europe. People from Europe and beyond came to Pennsylvania because any religion was tolerated. Alexander Hamilton said “I dined at a tavern with a very mixed company of different nations and religions. There were Scots, English, Dutch, Germans, and Irish. There were Roman Catholics, Church [of England] men, Presbyterians, Quakers, … Moravians … and one Jew”. Another example of religious tolerance is the Southern colonies. Lord Baltimore did this so he could get more people to come to Maryland. No other colony allowed religious tolerance for this

The Northern colony consisted of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Middle Colonies are Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York, New Jersey. The Southern Colony, has Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. All three colonies wanted to make money, but each colony had different ways in doing so, mainly due to what they had to work with. There are differences and similarities between these colonies in the areas of Economy, religion, and political.

The Chesapeake and New England were some of the first areas to be colonized by the English in America. The Chesapeake is what we now know as Maryland and Virginia, named so in reference to the Chesapeake Bay. New England, now divided into four states, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, was named in homage to the mother country England, as a promise to be a “New” England where the Puritan settlers could worship as they pleased.[1] Though the two bear many similar characteristics—they were both English colonies, facing the obstacle of the Native Americans, attempting to settle and create new societies—there are many more differences which set the colonies apart, economically, socially, and geographically.

The Middle and New England colonies have changed alot since the 1700s. They have similarities in their climate and farming. The Middle and New England colonies have many similarities and differences back in the 1700s like now. Their similarities were mainly economy related. First, both regions had mild and frigid winters.