A significant reason as to why new England and Chesapeake Bay evolved into two very distinctive societies was their political differences. The settlers of Chesapeake Bay modeled their government after the house of Burgesses, on the house of Parliament in England. The major political development of the Chesapeake Bay colony was the Maryland Act of Religious Synopsis. This allowed any sect of Christianity to practice. On the other hand, New England matured into a more structured government system. The New England colonies were not founded with much democracy at all. But the environment and various elements of the Puritan theology moved the New England colonies in an increasingly democratic direction especially since land was more available than
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The southern region, with its rich fertile soil and long growing season required an arduous yearlong labor. Soil in the New England region is quite shallow and hard a harder terrain. Erosion was also a concern in this area because of high precipitation rates due to how close they were to the coast. This makes farming challenging in New England colonies. The geographical differences in the two regions severely diminished the efficiency of slave labor in New England. New England was less ethnically mixed than its southern neighbors because of the difficult landscape. European immigrants were not attracted in great numbers to a site where the soil was stony. It was rare for an African slave to live long enough to be worth the sizeable financial investment. The cost of a slave was roughly double that of an indentured servant. The Southern colonies had more access to fertile grounds that the New England terrain lacked. The New England environment also lacked the means to sustain year around cash crops, so the large quantity of slave labor wasn’t affordable or necessary. The region’s unsuitability for cash crops prevented the development of large plantations. Instead, on small farms that dotted the New England landscape from Connecticut to Maine, New England farmers practiced subsistence farming, using nearly
The southern region, with its rich fertile soil and long growing season required an arduous yearlong labor. Soil in the New England region is quite shallow and hard a harder terrain. Erosion was also a concern in this area because of high precipitation rates due to how close they were to the coast. This makes farming challenging in New England colonies. The geographical differences in the two regions severely diminished the efficiency of slave labor in New England. New England was less ethnically mixed than its southern neighbors because of the difficult landscape. European immigrants were not attracted in great numbers to a site where the soil was stony. It was rare for an African slave to live long enough to be worth the sizeable financial investment. The cost of a slave was roughly double that of an indentured servant. The Southern colonies had more access to fertile grounds that the New England terrain lacked. The New England environment also lacked the means to sustain year around cash crops, so the large quantity of slave labor wasn’t affordable or necessary. The region’s unsuitability for cash crops prevented the development of large plantations. Instead, on small farms that dotted the New England landscape from Connecticut to Maine, New England farmers practiced subsistence farming, using nearly