Chesapeake Bay Program

16th and early 17th century England colonized most of America. The Chesapeake and New England areas are the most known regions of this time. The Chesapeake region concluded of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, though this region is named after the Chesapeake Bay. Virginia at this time was controlled by the crown. Both colonies were both settled by English immigrants, settling in areas for many different reasons. The Chesapeake society was big in the tobacco industry, and Tobacco is a labor-intensive

Puritans accidentally landed in Plymouth Massachusetts. Therefore, while New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled and ruled by the English, by the 1700s they had evolved into two very separate distinct societies due to the differences in colonization, settlers, and economic activities in each region. The difference in colonization led to distinct societies between New England and the Chesapeake regions. In 1607, after Sir Walter Raleigh's colony of Roanoke was unsuccessful, Jamestown

newfound Americas after watching other European nations do the same. The first few English settlements in the Americas were founded in two general regions now known as the Chesapeake Bay, and New England. Although the colonists from these two regions came from the same place, they soon began to distinguish themselves as the Chesapeake Bay colonies and the New England colonies. There were distinct differences between the two areas which had to do with many factors, including reason for settlement, climate

explorer of the Chesapeake region, who wrote a piece about the abundance of resources and wealth of the region in a propaganda piece, A Description of New England, in 1616. However, the “New England” region that is known today is nowhere near a literal new England. Due to differences in religious beliefs, climate and geography, and economies, the New England colonies were vastly different from their Crown and home. However, a few hundred miles south, the colonies around the Chesapeake were strikingly

Chesapeake Bay, the largest North American estuary, where many watermen have successfully made a living by harvesting the plentiful amounts of seafood. Each year, millions of people are attracted to the bay for the different recreational activities that include hunting, fishing, and boating; this alone greatly contributes to the economy of Maryland. The professional fishermen here rely on large populations of these sea creatures to thrive, and remain large in number. If these numbers were to drop

organization? The Chesapeake Ecology Center 2. Where is it located? Annapolis, MD 3. What is its mission? The Chesapeake Ecology Center is devoted to behavior that stimulates individuals to care about our threatened environment. They particularly teach people to do greening and gardening work for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The outcomes of these actions result in more stable, gorgeous surroundings that are advantageous to populations and that support area’s biodiversity needs (Chesapeake Ecology Center

Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic state that's defined by its abundant waterways and coastlines on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic. Its largest city, Baltimore, has a long history as a major seaport. Fort McHenry, birthplace of the U.S. national anthem, sits at the mouth of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, home to the National Aquarium and Maryland Science

Each spring, the Delaware Bay becomes the site of one of the most spectacular and ancient phenomena in the natural world: the spawning of horseshoe crabs and the flocking of ravenous shorebirds that depend on them. On moonlit nights in May and June, thousands of the crabs crawl ashore on Delaware Bay beaches at high tide to lay eggs, as they have for 450 million years. The crabs are sometimes so dense that the water’s edge looks like a road paved with brown shells. WHY COUNT THE CRABS? Knowing

An issue that was present in few specific cities in Maryland have now expanded throughout the entire state. The Chesapeake Bay, a large estuary that has an extremely complex ecosystem that is vital to important habitats and food webs in this area. The Chesapeake bay is arguably one of the most productive environments in the United States. Over the years, this bay has been in a decline of wellness. Pollution, contaminants, and many other factors are destroying the overall well being of these waters

and most likely will cause a struggling town or city to fall into the extremes of poverty and wealth. The New England community was so strong and so supportive in comparison to that of the Chesapeake Bay, that it is no wonder they developed into two distinctly different cultures before the year 1700. The Chesapeake region developed into a land of plantations and money-driven owners, with the elite wealthy, almost no middle class, and those in poverty creating the population. New England, on the other