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    The Chesapeake Bay Area continent, is known for having “fresh water, fertile soil, and economical transportation, since that, agriculture, fishing, and hunting” (marinersmuseum.org) is very common. This continent can also be called an “estuary, which is a fresh water and salt water mixed body of water, in fact, it is the largest estuary in the United States” (chesapeakebay.net). Within this continent “Virginia and Maryland make it up and they worship God, in other words their religion is Christianity. North Americans viewed them as a source of gold, wine, citrus fruits, and olive oil. Later, the colony began to grow tobacco” (George Brown Tindall and David Emory Shi 35-41). The New England continent, which is “north of the Chesapeake Bay Area…

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    1. By the end of the 1600s, the Chesapeake Bay region was an agro-export economy specializing in the cultivation of tobacco. One geographic benefits of the region to this endeavor is that the Chesapeake Bay region is surrounded by a lot of rivers where it makes trade and transportation of good accessible between different states. According to the Chesapeake Bay River 1 map, there are many rivers such as the Potomac River which extends to other states. In the map the whole region is highlighted…

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    During the 1700’s, New England and the Chesapeake region developed into two distinct societies because of environmental factors and religious reasons. Although both territories originated from English settlers, they encountered differences that led them on separate paths to form their own flourishing societies. To begin with, New England and the Chesapeake region evolved into two different societies because of environmental factors. In Document 1, the chart reveals how the mosquito-infested…

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    By the 1700s, the New England and the Chesapeake regions developed into two different colonies due to each colony’s reason for settlement, consisting of religious and economic reasons, their personal beliefs, and their growth in their society. While the settlers of New England immigrated to the Americas to escape religious persecution, the settlers of the Chesapeake region immigrated for more economic reasons—the search of gold. Each colony’s way of life contrasted from one another in the way…

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    16 New England and Chesapeake Region's Distinct Societies DBQ The first colonies established by England were founded near the Chesapeake region, and soon enough others began to form in New England. Despite them both being settled mainly by English people, by 1700 their colonies progressed into two distinct societies for a variety of reasons. Even to this day there are a few distinct differences between these areas, but where did they begin? These differences in development are a result from…

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    New England and the Chesapeake regions, both the regions developed into two distinct societies. How can people of the same ethnicity influence and change the societies so drastically? The two societies had different needs and purposes for why they were founded. They also differ in social, political, economical aspects and in geography. Since social differences, politics, economics and geography can really influence a society; this is what distinguished the New England region from the Chesapeake…

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    moral health of the whole community and would do whatever was called for to keep their community strong and happy. "This court … in the interim recommends [that] all tradesmen and laborers consider the religious end of their callings, which is that receiving such moderate profits as may enable them to serve God and their neighbors", DOC. E, this shows that they would give their money away to help their fellow man. The new towns had legal chartering by the colonial authorities and land was…

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    New England vs. the Chesapeake Region (DBQ) Settlers arrived to the Chesapeake region only to be greeted by unhealthy lands full of despair and labor. New Englanders, on the other hand, were welcomed by fresh air and clean water. As the years passed, the state of these two lands stabilized a bit with each other, but the people’s way of living in these regions did not. New England and the Chesapeake region developed differently because of the types of people who came to each of these places,…

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    Although New England and the Chesapeake region were settled by people of English origin, the two regions became two distinct societies due to the people who inhabited each area. The majority of settlers going to New England were families escaping English Civil War and the persecution of Puritans that came with it. They were looking for religious freedom for themselves. In John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity, directed towards the people headed towards New England on the Arabella, stated…

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    prepare both the U.S and Mexico for environmental response, and stewardship. The Border 2020 project was created under the La Paz (The Peace) agreement in 1983 . Building off the border 2012 project, the latest edition will break into a two year plan, conquering each goal. The E.P.A and SEMARNAT, as well as other local governments, encourage the community to be actively involved. Project responsibilities are broken down into 3 networks. The first network being the Regional Workgroups. In…

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