Chesapeake Region Essay

Indentured servants were a big part of the development of the Chesapeake region. Roughly 80 percent of the Chesapeake region was indentured servants. What is an indentured servant? An Indentured servant was a man or woman that worked for roughly four to seven years for a crop owner. After they served their time to their master’s that would be free and could live as a free person in the Chesapeake. The Chesapeake rarely had slaves in its early years of development because of the vast majority of…

and lost hope of acquiring any land, the British set their sights on the New World. Many journeyed across the Atlantic to populate a variety of areas, ranging from the West Indies to Virginia and Massachusetts’s Bay. Although both the Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by the white English, by 1700 both evolved into distinct societies due to economic,…

nothing could be further from the truth. Despite having people of the same origin, the colonies in the New England region and the Chesapeake region developed radically differently from each other. By 1700, the two colonial regions had developed into two distinct societies; each had its own values, appearances, and economies. The difference in development between the two colonial regions was no accident; many different factors had a hand in shaping each region’s way of life. Differences in…

Chapter 3: Compare and Contrast the government, religion, geography, and economy of the three english colonial regions (Chesapeake area, New England, and Pennsylvania) [ consider race, gender, ethnicity ] The first regions inhabited by the newcomers from England were the Chesapeake area, New England, and Pennsylvania. The Chesapeake area was composed of Virginia and Maryland and inhabited Powhatan Indians as well as the new colonists. Towards the bottom of the social totem were the indentured…

By the 1700’s, the New England region and the Chesapeake region had become two very distinct societies. Even though they were both settled by people of the English origin, New England was based more toward developing longer lasting families rather than finding gold and getting rich quickly, the Chesapeake and the New Englanders had different economic goals, and both regions had very different geographies. The ships that came to New England had very different groups of people emigrating…

1700’s. The two sections of the English colonization were the New England and Chesapeake region. The New England area consisted of what is now currently Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The Chesapeake region was mainly Maryland and Virginia, even though the Carolinas and Georgia were considered part of the Chesapeake region as well. Although the two regions were both settled by Englishmen, the regions possessed major differences that could be traced back to the…

New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled by people largely of English origin. However by 1700 both regions had evolved into their own distinct societies, drastically differing from one another. Although the settlers of these two regions may have all come from English origin, contrasting motives of the settlers resulted in the creation of two societies independent of one another. These regions developed into two distinct societies due to the difference in their founders motives.…

defined regions of the United States. While both the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies had deep-seated aversion for the natives, they differed in their religious homogeneity and economic policies. The New England colonies were strictly Puritan whereas the Chesapeake colonies followed no universal religion; also, while the New England colonies relied on fishing, shipbuilding, and farming, the Chesapeake colonies relied on their strong tobacco based economy. Although both regions…

The Chesapeake region and the New England colonies were very different in how they were created and how they were successful; however, being successful is how they were alike. They both struggled and had to overcome obstacles on their way to success. The brutal wilderness that made up the Chesapeake region prompted a slow start for the early settlers. Diseases, such as Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid, ran rampant among the early colonists, cutting ten years off of the life expectancy of new…

slavery promotion in the Chesapeake region, education was not valued as much as it was in New England. The only people able to be educated were the wealthy white people. In New England Education was valued so much they passed a law (1647 Education Act) that stated every city had to have a public school for people to attend. Bothe regions were religious tolerant, but in the south…