The Land As A Rival Of The Old Testament 's Promise Land

The immigrants that settled the colonies of Chesapeake Bay and New England came to the New World for two different reasons. These differences were noticeable in social structure, economic outlook, and religious background. As the colonies were organized the differences were becoming more and more obvious and affected the way the communities prospered. These differences are evident from both written documents from the colonists and the historical knowledge of this particular period in 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.

Native Americans easily engaged in trade with Europeans. They wished to include new glass and metal items in their society. European and Native Americans viewed trade as a means for economic development. Native Americans viewed trade, also, as a way for communicating with individuals and maintaining interdependence. This is evident in the elaborate gift giving celebrations that occurred before exchanging of goods occurred. For Europeans, however, these social and spiritual functions of trade were limited a great deal more.

The Europeans changed the land of the home of the Indians, which they renamed New England. In Changes in the Land, Cronon explains all the different aspects in how the Europeans changed the land. Changing by the culture and organization of the Indians lives, the land itself, including the region’s plants and animals. Cronon states, “The shift from Indian to European dominance in New England entailed important changes well known to historians in the ways these peoples organized their lives, but it also involved fundamental reorganizations less well known to historians in the region’s plant and animal communities,” (Cronon, xv). New England went through human development, environmental and ecological change from the Europeans.

Adventure, promises of wealth, and an opportunity to a new life were some of the many reasons which attracted settlers to the Americas. However, what the new settlers did not know were the many challenges and tragedies this new life entailed. Despite all, the colonists of Jamestown would encounter the difficulties of starting a new colony in a foreign new land. The life these settlers found was nothing like they expected. Their hopes for wealth and a new beginning were soon replaced with death and misery. The colonies of the Americas can be seen as a failure because European settlers would come to experience the horrors that the “New World” would give them including famine and diseases.

This paper offers an inside look at how the New England and the mid-Atlantic colonies lived, out of the thirteen that settled, the different events that led to their upbringing, religious identities, and their day to day lifestyles. Rather, if it was a small difference that the colonist who lived in the same region were not living the same way their neighbor was, it may have also taken generations for the colonist to get things up and running, but along the way they learn what is needed to make their new living situation work.

The colonization of the New World was a trying time for the European powers trying to catch up the Spanish, such as the British. Sometimes colonies were successful, and sometimes they didn’t last long at all. There were not only the differences in terms of failing or succeeding, but differences in terms of how the successful colonies succeeded. Two of the most successful colonies were established and developed in totally different ways. The difference in the successful development of the colonies in the Chesapeake region was totally different than the successful development of the colonies in the New England region, and was caused by different populations, climate, geography, and motivations.

The call of John Winthrop for the Massachusetts Bay colony to be a “City on a Hill” literally meant for the members of the colony to be a spiritual example and guide for others, but also implies the ontological statement of exceptionalism through capital gain. In this paper, the reader will discover the connection between John Winthrop and mercantilism, which is a branch of capitalism that focuses on merchants trading using the government to help regulate the expansion of capital. In addition, the content of this paper will extrapolate on the pragmatic implications of this economic system and its effects on the people involved. John Winthrop’s sermon, “On the Model of Christian Charity,” establishes a pre-capitalist ideology through the presupposition of Winthrop’s personal/political beliefs, Puritan thought, and the manifestation of these thoughts actualized in the marginalization of Native Americans.

In a time when Spanish and New England colonies journeyed to explore and to colonize the New World in the 1600’s. The colonies both looked to gain more power and wealth. It is in this context that the ways of the Spanish and English colonies varied when it came to settlement and survival on the land in the New World. The difference between the Spanish and New England colonies in the New World between 1492 to 1700 differed considerably in religious beliefs, economy, and treatment of the indigenous people because of the significant change that occurred when the colonies migrated into the New World.

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England authored by William Cronon discusses the history of the ecological changes of colonial New England in consequence to the relationship of Native American and European Settlers and the land. Cronon exemplifies this by helping readers understand the effect of the change of dominance in New England from Native Americans to Europeans had on landscape and ecosystems.

With the discovery of the New World in 1492, came the English in hopes of starting again in a new land. Through violence and other vile tactics, the English were able to remove most of the natives from the land and start creating their new societies. While this rebuilding occurred, the English split into two distinctive groups known as The Chesapeake and New England. In documents from both colonies, set in the 1600’s, we will examine how the same group of people can have completely different social characteristics, economics, and religion.

The colonies in New England began as a religious voyage. New England colonists, consisted of Puritans and Pilgrims, wanted to escape religious persecution in England. Pilgrims were Separatists and wanted to completely separate from the Church of England. The Puritans believed that they could reform the Church of England. For both of these groups, they believed that they could solve their problems by voyaging to the New World and establishing their own colonies. Through a belief of hard work and through God’s help, many predicted that these colonies would be a model for the world. Life in the New England colonies was brutal, especially the winter. During the winter of 1620-1621, only 44 out of 102 colonists managed to survive in the Plymouth colony. Most of the colonies relied upon farming for their source of food. For Plymouth, an English-speaking Indian named Squanto helped the colonists learn farming techniques. Government structure was significantly different in the New England colonies. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, representative government was frowned upon. Only the “saved” were allowed voting rights. Both Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had governors, just like in Virginia. Unlike Virginia colonies, the New England colonies’ religious leaders held the highest positions in the town. These religious leaders were very influential in political matters as well as enforcing religious rules. The colonists’ relations with the Indians were very similar to the Virginia colonies. At first, colonies tried to cooperate with the Native Americans. However, when colonists pushed westward, conflict was imminent. Many New England colonists believed the New World was the “Devil’s Homeland.” As a result, they believed that the Indians were devil worshippers. This added even more tension between the colonists and natives. Eventually, the tension between the

A historical event that occurred in the Pacific Northwest region was the start of trading between Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest and Europeans. This was an important event because Non-Native Americans were driven to the region because of the idea of making money. This lead to settlements and trading posts throughout the region.The social structure of tribes in this region was also affected by trade. The website http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Indians%20&%20Europeans/II.html says, “In return the Europeans sought furs, and it became relatively simple for powerful Native leaders to take control of the acquisition, preperation, and trade of furs within a given area.

At the start of Americas in 1604 was the separatist, people who revolted against the church of England. They left England insight of religious freedoms to practice what they believed in. As time soon passed on more and more people traveled or where sent to New England for various reasons. Over the course of years’ thousands of people had soon accumulated in New England, rising the population counts to well over 50,000. This colony had no government other than the one they once came from. So the colonies where reliant on the English government to solve the resolutions they need. A though England was a whole Atlantic sea away, it took time for things to come back the colonies almost 7 months to a year (McKeown, Michael). Being so far Caused a

When the European settlers arrived to the “New World”, the lives of American Indians were reformed. These changes range from the cultural aspects held within tribes to all the aspects of which individual/groups traded with one another, market economy. European settlers had a significant impact on the market economy which was initially ran and governed by the Native Indians participating in the trades. With the involvement of European colonist in this new market economy, Native Americans actively tried to be engaged in the market economy; whether it was through a social standpoint or the economic standpoint of the negotiation. Throughout the course of this essay, there will be a clear distinction of the understanding of the economic exchange and social relations between the European colonist and the Native, the process that Native Americans went through to be put in the market economy, and how the market exchange changed the native involvement in the imperial struggle between the French and the British.