New England Colonies

England had thirteen formative colonies in North America. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Bay were some of the prominent founding colonies. The two I choose to analyze are Massachusetts Bay Colony and Pennsylvania. Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the first English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, they arrived in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan colonists from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company received a charter…

New England New England’s economy developed around the water and land resources available to the colonists. Massachusetts’ bay and harbors, enabled colonists to develop a thriving ocean-based economy. Fishing, shipbuilding, and whaling made the colony prosperous. The economy of New England also centered around the use of forest products. Since the soil in New England was too rocky to farm, colonists used timber from the forests for building houses, ships, and tools. Timber was also exchanged for…

why new England and Chesapeake Bay evolved into two very distinctive societies was their political differences. The settlers of Chesapeake Bay modeled their government after the house of Burgesses, on the house of Parliament in England. The major political development of the Chesapeake Bay colony was the Maryland Act of Religious Synopsis. This allowed any sect of Christianity to practice. On the other hand, New England matured into a more structured government system. The New England colonies…

1754, the colonies in America were not sovereign, as they did not have an independent economic system, political system, or a sufficient security system. Individual colonies each exhibited many aspects of sovereignty, but were not completely self-sufficient, and as a whole the colonies did not have a common goal in mind, meaning they were not united. Colonies such as Massachusetts were close to being sovereign while colonies such as Virginia were more tied to England. However, no single colony…

not get to live to see the New World. For those who survived the journey, it seemed as though there was disease and death surrounding them everywhere they went. There were many different ships which took people to the New World, and the settlers formed a total of three colonies. Those who rode on the Mayflower signed a Mayflower Compact, which simply required those who signed to accept whatever form of government was established after landing in America, in the New England…

Plymouth, a Colony to be Remembered In the 1600’s, England was settling in what is now known as North America. They came for political and economical reasons with the intent to colonize. England had two settlements in the New World, Plymouth and Jamestown, that were particularly successful in their own ways. But, overall, which one was more successful? If success means achieving the goal they had set before them, than Plymouth was the more successful colony because of the choice of settlers who…

During the 16th and 17th centuries the conditions in England were of great changes in both rural and urban areas. Therefore King James I granted the Virginia Company Of London - a joint stock formed by a group of merchants - the right to establish colonies in the New World. The leaders of the company sent skilled man because of the potential conflict with Spanish and Powhatan Indians, and the commanders of the voyage were Christopher Newpor, Bartholomew Gosnold, ohn Ratcliffe, and along with…

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…

When is it a good time to become an independent nation? In 1607, the first colony was founded and settled by Englishmen. Since then, the colonists have been under the rule of the British king, receiving help and following the laws that are enforced. After years of being an English colony, people started disagreeing with how they were being treated. These people, also known as the patriots, started to rebel and try to get their king to notice what they wanted to get across. In the meantime,…

Cornelia Hughes Dayton utilizes, as Hemphill does, a primarily legal based methodology in her article “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth Century New England Village. Examining a variety of depositions and legal documents surrounding a fornication trial in Pomfret, Connecticut, Dayton argues two major fundamental shifts occurred by the 1740s which highlighted how different their society was from that of the Puritan dominated seventeenth century. First, there was a…