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The New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled by people of English origin, but developed into completely different societies. They did not have the same intentions for their settlement in the New World. The colonies had religious, political, economic and social differences. New England sought religious freedom, however, in the Chesapeake region when the people first settled all they wanted to do was look for gold and other valuables to take back to Europe. New England sent…

able to get along by vaguely disguising himself but not really putting in enough effort so that it was almost certain that he wouldn’t get captured. His capture put England in a perilous situation concerning money, because of the ransom needed for his release. The amount was so high that it had taken 6 months for the people of England to raise enough money for him to be released. The tactics used to get the money were quite a few taxes on income and movables, on the…

the Chesapeake settlers. The Chesapeake region was focused on profits and making money. Some of these settlers went even further to make a profit by picking to plant their tobacco crops before they planted their main food resource, corn. The New England region strived because it was based upon the dependence of families who depended upon each…

BREAK FREE FROM ENGLAND! The colonies should break free from England because they are ruining our lives and infringing upon our rights and freedoms. They are taxing us with no voice in parliament and smacking stamps on to our goods. England is taking away our rights, starting with [first act] and now with [recent act]. The military is becoming involved in our lives, from the massacre of 1770 to the housing of soldiers in nearby buildings. Thus, the 13 colonies should unite to break free from…

Since The New England Colonies usually didn’t farm they had to fish. This fish along with other resources were traded for items that they needed to survive because they didn’t have the right location to get these items. The New England Colonies along with the other colonies traded along The Triangular Trade Route. It was called this because when looked upon on a map it looks like a triangle. The Triangular Trade Route Connected Europe, The Colonies, and Africa. New England Colonies trading ships…

The life expectancy in the South at the time was ten years less than in England; half of the people born in these colonies did not make it see their twentieth birthday. The deadly disease that swept through the colonies and the constant breaking up of families led to the high mortality rates and the quality of life being very poor at this time. Since African slaves were too expensive at the time, and England had a surplus of workers, these men came over to America to be indentured servants.…

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…

groups New England Colonies consists of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The colonies appeared in the New England region between 1620 and 1640. Between 1630 and 1642, the growth in New England became stable. The New Englander believed in God. With a balanced sex ratio (about three men to two women), marriage and childbearing were more common. In addition, the healthier climate here contributed to improving survival rates and longer life spans. In New England, women…

Elizabethan England: Fashion, Crime, and Theatre “’O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?’” This quote from the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet is well known to essentially everyone. But this common phrase may never have been repeated if Shakespeare was not taught in schools ubiquitously. While studying Shakespeare, it is vital to contemplate the life he lived in the Elizabethan era. Three notable components of daily life in Elizabethan England include fashion, crime and punishment,…

fertile soil, the early settlers soon found that almost any plant thrived best in the Chesapeake region. On the contrary the New England settlers had to endure a harsher climate where the fine rocky soils made farming difficult and many had to find new sources of income to survive. In addition to the obvious climatic differences between the Chesapeake and New England communities, there were also significant contrasts between each colonies foundations of socio-economic income, religious beliefs,…