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    Although the New England region, primarily Massachusetts, and the Chesapeake region, primarily Virginia, were both settled largely by people of English origin, and by 1700, the regions evolved into two distinct colonies. This difference in development occurred due to the different founding purposes, the different types of people, and the different geography. In the early seventeenth century, the Puritans settled in New England, establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They had religious reasons

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    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

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    The three different categorizations of colonies were different in a lot of ways, but also quite similar in many as well, being as they were all eventually ruled beneath the same country: England. By means of explanation, this paper will include four paragraphs cataloging the similarities and differences of the colonies to compare them to each other. For an example of a similarity between the New England and Middle colonies, one could look to the fact that many in both of the categories were created

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    Although the New England and Chesapeake colonies were settled by people of English origin, by 1700 they were two distinct societies. What accounts for these differences? Basically, the motives, the geography and the values of the people in the colonies were combined to form two very separate societies in Massachusetts and Virginia. Of course both societies contain settlers from Britain. However, the motives and the values in each society were drastically different from each other. Most people who

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    New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and were known for being rich in forests and fur trapping as well as being the New England colonies. The area was not known for good farmland since the farms are small to provide for individual families. New England flourished instead with fishing, shipbuilding, lumbering, and fur trading along with trading goods with Europe. The famous Triangle Trade occurred in the New England colonies where slaves were sold in the West Indies for molasses

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    Also in a time when new colonists are arriving from England to America to form settlements, and settlers begin to reconsider their traditions. It is in this context that the Spanish and New England colonists are compared and contrasted. The Spanish and New England colonies from 1492 to 1700 were significantly similar in terms of treatment of indigenous people and considerably different in control of religion and control of European government. The Spanish and New England colonies from 1492 to 1700

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    New England and the middle colonies had many similarities and differences when it came to the founding, religious and social composition, economic foundations, and political development. To start off with, they both had problems with the Indians and both the New England and middle colonies had created rules that were originally planned to help their mother country of England. Firstly, New England’s motives for being founded. New England consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and

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    the New England and Chesapeake Bay Regions During the 1700's, people in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives, others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy, religion, and motives for colonial expansion. The colonists of the New England

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    Even together as the thirteen original colonies, the environment between the New England, Middle and Southern colonies all were different. Each section had a different way of life but all still functioned as one. The environment is significant in the colonial and early U.S. history because of its use of political, economic and social factors as demonstrated by trade, agriculture, transportation and religion. Trade was a big economic factor in each environment within colonial history because of its

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    By the 1700’s the Chesapeake and New England regions had developed vast differences. Although both regions were settled by a group of people from the same location and a common culture, the two had developed into areas with little similarities. Differences between the groups can be seen when looking at the cultures of both areas. The New England and Chesapeake regions developed differently by the 1700’s because of political, religious, and economic reasons. Chesapeake politics were mainly controlled

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