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Differences Between Chesapeake And New England Colonies

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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. The New England colonies were way north of the Chesapeake colonies; this leads to a much colder and snowier winter than experienced down south. Tobacco thrived in Maryland and Virginia, this was the source of much of their economy since with such mild winter it could be grown almost year round. Tobacco would cause them to bring over indentured servants to tend to the labor intensive crop as seen in document 3. The New England economy could not depend on tobacco, the economy instead relied on …show more content…

This endeavour had the sole purpose to make money. Puritans in England were highly persecuted, to escape this persecution they set their sights on the New World during the Puritan migration. The London Company landed in the Chesapeake region and the Puritans landed in the New England region. The Chesapeake region in its beginning consisted of mostly men and the New England region had many whole families move over as seen in Document 2. The men of the Chesapeake wanted to make as much money as possible so they came to look for gold. The Puritans who were trying to escape persecution to or create their ideal society as seen in Document 1. The New England region would develop much quicker because of much higher birth rates and their idea of create a utopia; the Chesapeake took a long time to develop and struggled with leadership and starvation in their early years as seen in document

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