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who settled Massachusetts Bay, Virginia, and their surrounding colonies all emigrated from the same country. This difference in overall development occurred due to the contrasting motives of the colonists departing for New England and the Chesapeake. The people who would become New Englanders were motivated by the potential for a better life and the freedom to practice their religion which caused the formation of a peaceable and family-oriented culture. In comparison, the people who would…

settlement on the east coast of north America occurred in 1585, the English settlement did not separate into two distinct area until the 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.…

development of Virginia and Massachusetts has many similarities but also many differences. The two colonies have similar problems when trying to develop their towns but had different reasons for why they started them to begin with. while both had different driving forces, they both ultimately wanted the same thing, to form a successful new town. Though out the next paragraphs I will discuss these differences and similarities, as well as why I think Massachusetts was the more successful colony. …

In my thesis, I contend that the Puritans were successful in New England because they came with family and members of their community, the New England terrain helped farmers across the colony produce enough material to sustain themselves and the ability to trade with England, and the New England colony saw more independence from Britain than other colonies. One of the reasons for the Puritans’ success in England is because they were able to bring family members to the colony and they…

1914 by the Cape Cod Canal, but the Sagamore Bridge, the Bourne Bridge and the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge make access and transportation. Cape Cod is divided into 15 towns: Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, Mashpee, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Harwich, Dennis, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown and each town has several villages. When the name “Cape Cod” was used for the first time in 1602, it only referring to the region situated at…

rules” rule. Education and religion were very strong in New England. They came into existence to teach the priest literacy education. The dominant religion in the New england region were the puritans. The puritans were a group of reformist who wanted to purify the church. Eventually some people from other religion tried to settle in New England but they were met with nothing other than hostility, discrimination and violence.…

He became the minister of a Boston parish in 1803. Cultured, eloquent, and a persuasive writer, he became famed throughout New England for his oratorical gifts and as a theologian. In seriousness of purpose and in purity of character, Channing represented the strength and virtue of the old Puritan stock. His portrait, presenting him in the conventional black gown of the clergyman with the white bands at the neck, shows a face highly intellectual and refined, with features delicate, spiritual,…

Discovery and landed in Virginia and named it Jamestown. Thirteen years later, a hundred and two pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, landed in Massachusetts and named their colony Plymouth. Jamestown and Plymouth came to the New World to start anew and prosper. Each of the colonies stay in the New World was different in many aspects, but for some they were the same. The locations of the settlements were vastly different from each other. Jamestown provided warm climate and fertile soil which allowed…

largely by people of English origin; Thus, one would think that, as a whole, the colonies would develop similar cultures and ways of life. However, 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…

In the 1600s Europeans came to America in search of new opportunities and a better life, but instead they found problems with the Native Americans who had been there long before them. During this stretch of time each colony and group of Indians had their own social, economic, and political tactics for dealing with their new neighbors. These very tense relationships were created because each group (Indians and Europeans) tried to force their traditions on to one another. The Indians initially…