Causes Of Attitudes Of The Colonists

, I believe that the type of attitude the colonist of the settlers held when they left their homes and everything they knew to encounter diseases, starvation and the possible loss of life throughout the voyage to the New World, in hope of creating a better life.
Colonist gradually began to create and populate towns and cities, and the southern colonies formed into separate regions from northern colonies. There were numerous causes for this separation, such as different climates, encounters with Indians, production and distribution of raw materials, politics, and slavery. The main cause was the different mindsets of the English people. The northern colonies were established by people with strong attitude based on religious beliefs, family and …show more content…
The motive of this establishment was based on financial benefits. The goal they wished to accomplish was the discovery or creation of a water passage meant to procure gold and other rare products that would help the English financially free themselves from their dependence on trade with Spain. Clearly their interests were not spiritual, but profane; they were simply investors hoping for rich profit.
The variety of social classes and genders of the Pilgrims and the Jamestown colonist were very different. The Pilgrims were mostly middle class families who were more capable and could afford the journey to the New World. The colonists of Jamestown were more elect gentlemen that were not accustomed and unwilling to engage in physical and hard labor. It did not take long for these settlers to grow lazy to a point where they were trying to bind freeman to be …show more content…
In the North, many families had numerous children, and these children were expected to help parents work the farm and when they became of age, the males would inherit the land and females were given a dowry. In return, they were obligated to take care of their parents as they reached their later years. Children and parents depended on each other throughout their lives, enforcing religious beliefs and strong ethnical values. In larger families, there was hardly enough land to be distributed among many children, which resulted in male children sent off to become apprentices and learn to work on other farms and hard work, tough living conditions and by saving their earnings, eventually they would have enough to rent land for themselves when they reached 20 years of age. If they continued to go through life living under the same conditions they did as apprentices, they would hopefully have enough money to buy land, start a family, and live as their parents did. Although they may not have been around, their familial-ties were never affected and they too were obligated to care for their parents in their later