Differences Between New England And Chesapeake Colonies

The Chesapeake Colonies, such as Virginia and Maryland, were located on the coastline of the New World. This gave them access to the water where they could catch fish, however, the water brought many upon many diseases to the settlers, such as Malaria and Cholera. Like the Chesapeake settlers the New England colony was also on the coastline, but, they did not get killed as much by disease like the Chesapeake settlers did. Economically Chesapeake and new England were not alike, Chesapeake’s economy was primarily dominated by plantation owners, who had their labor done by slaves, while New England’s economy was dominated by farmers, merchants, and artisans. Another key difference is demographics, the Chesapeake settlers were often single people, usually men, while New England was settled by families, and as a result the community became family oriented. The religion in these two colonies were greatly different, in New England they were mainly Puritan, while in Chesapeake they were mainly Catholic and Protestant. A thing they have in common is that they both mainly have settlers from England, also, they both had many conflicts with the American Indians, like the Pequot War in New England and the conflict with the Powhatan Confederacy in Chesapeake. …show more content…
Lastly, another difference between Chesapeake and New England was of their towns, New England had buildings structured like the ones in England, but in the Chesapeake colonies they had large spread out plantations, Chesapeake had a lot less development than New England, it had no development of roads, as water was the primary transportation source in