A New England Nun Essay

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…

religion and every religion is accepted, but that was not always the case when the Puritans tried to force their religion on the Indians. Religion is a touchy topic in our society today, but not as much as it was when the Puritans first came to the New World and tried to force the natives to their religion. This created a conflict that got so heated it was a cause of war. This conflict makes us wonder, who started the fighting? Did the natives do something to the puritans or did the puritans do…

The difference between the story of Captain John Smith in the General History of Virginia, and William Bradford in Of Plymouth Plantation. Captain John Smith was a British soldier, he’s a founder of the American colony of Jamestown. He traveled in purpose to seek what he wanted, and that is to become wealthy. While William Bradford is an English separatist, the leader of the Plymouth colony. They are known as the Pilgrims, but before that they were originally known as the Old Comers and their…

These regions are similar, yet unique in their own way. The New England region, Middle region, and Southern region each have an economy, a climate, and a history that is each unique to that region. The New England Colonies The New England region was made up of the colonies of Massachusetts, Maine (which was part of Massachusetts), Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Being in the Northeast of the future U. S. the New England colonies never got very warm with harsh and cold winters.…

Colonial Settlement Design Research Data Collection WORKSHEET Region: Northeast Name of Colony: New Hampshire Year Founded: 1638 Founder: Captain John Mason and John Wheelwright 1. Give a brief description of why this colony was founded. John Mason was given a patent for all the land between the merrimack and kennebec rivers. The colony was…

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.…

Source #1 Pocahontas Images The new world and the old world had their differences, however the one thing they had in common was Pocahontas. In 1607, she took up the role of creating a relationship between the Indigenous Peoples and people of England. In 1612, her abduction by Captain Argall set in motion Pocahontas's new journey into the new world, forever changing her identity to the world. In 1616 Simon van de Passe created a portrait depicting Pocahontas's new Virginian features for the…

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…

As England began to take interest in the "New World", colonization by Englishmen began to spread drastically in the 1600's. English colonies took place on the eastern coast of the United States. Two early settlements established were in the New England and Chesapeake region. Although both were settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 these two regions had evolved into two distinct societies, due mainly to reasons involving the reasons for settlement, geographical differences leading…

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…