Chesapeake Colonies

It starts as the British were getting jealous from the Spanish who created colonies in central and South America and they took over the lands of Native Americans. The British try to copy the Spanish and they try to build their colonies over North America. Europeans are the ones who discovered Virginia in the late 1600s and Native Americans were living there at that time. At the same time, English colonists’…

Mercantilism shaped this exchange because economic markets in Europe, Africa, and the Americas had more exports than imports in order to achieve more economic success, resulting in higher transfers of foreign biological goods. The first permanent American colony, Jamestown, had several hindrances that caused them to struggle in its early years. Firstly, the Virginia Company only sent unskilled men to extract gold from the lands, only to find no gold. Without any skills to support themselves,…

Due to the geographic differences between the Northern and Southern colonies, the development of their economies was based off of different goods and services. In the South, with its “temperate climate and long growing season” (Davidson, et al 88), colonists found that the soil was fertile and therefore suitable for the large scale growth of first, tobacco, but later other crops including indigo, rice, and cotton. Southern colonist could grow these crops essentially all year as the temperature…

the Mississippi. To their dismay, the company went out of business and New Orleans was for the most part consider uninhabitable due to the climate and difficulties farming. Colonists travelled westward in hopes to find more furs to trade.The Chesapeake colonies, also affected by climate, had terribly low life expectancies. In Virginia, the James River was mostly at fault in the arid summers because the salt water obstructed the water full of pollutants, so the colonists were unknowingly…

thirteen colonies to first come into the new world. Virginia, being a colony for economic growth, differs from Massachusetts which was settled purely for the sake of religion. Two colonies derived from Europe, but having very different colonies with few similarities. By analyzing these two colonies and how they differed from one another, in the intentions for settlement, analyzing colonist from both colonies, how life and the colony was run; given that a lot was different between the two…

Jamestown and Plymouth colonies both had their own reasons for settling in the new world. They had different ways of living which led to different successions within their colonies. While both Jamestown and Plymouth colonies thrived for a better way of life, the comparison and contrasts between their beliefs on government and politics, economy and trade, and Indian relations widely vary. Secondly, while both Jamestown and Plymouth colonies thrived for a better way of life, the comparison and…

build their lives in different ways; two of the first colonies that arose in the new world were Plymouth and Chesapeake Bay. Plymouth and Chesapeake were alike in their forms of government, both used a representative approach that embodied the people. Both colonies relied heavily on slave labor to grow their economies. Economically, Chesapeake relied majorly on tobacco sales, while Plymouth had a wider variety of products to trade. Plymouth colony established the Mayflower Compact, which…

considered the thirteen colonies to be 3 very distinct regions, firstly because of the landscape. There was the North (New England), the Middle Colonies, the Southern Colonies, and the Chesapeake Colonies, which many historians consider to be part of the Southern Colonies. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island made up New England. These colonies were small and poorer farming towns. Geographically, the area had a lot of timber/wood and fish. The Middle Colonies were…

sixteenth century, Great Britain sought to place colonies in the New World in order to combat Spain’s successes in South America. The first two successful colonies in North America were Jamestown, founded in 1607, and Massachusetts Bay, founded in 1630. The New England and Chesapeake regions were settled mostly by people of English origin, both evolved into two distinct societies due to the purposes of the colonies, the people who populated the colonies, and the principles of the colonists.…

Even though English settlers traveled across the Atlantic to the Chesapeake Bay area, the West Indies, and the area that became New England all around the same time, they formed very different kinds of society. This makes it obvious that the determining factor in the way colonial societies grow is dependent on more than just the lifestyle its settlers had in their homeland. In addition to the reasons for settlement in each area, one might also explore the obstacle settlers faced in…