New England

Before they could establish themselves as an independent American nation, the English colonies had to endure hardship in their attempt to settle in the New World. The first arrivals in the early 1600s did not have all the required tools to survive in a different environment, but had a string willingness to learn. The opportunities offered in the different regions allowed each colony to develop in its own unique way. In the span of a little more than a hundred years, the colonies gained the…

to 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…

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…

The New York Colony was one of the 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three areas, The New England, The Middle and The Southern colonies. The New York Colony was one of the Middle Colonies. It began as the Dutch trading outpost. In 1664, King Charles II gave the land in between New England and Virginia, to his brother James, the Duke of York. Dutch traders already occupied much of this land and landowners The English engaged and…

history, as the New England colonies inhabited North-East America and the Chesapeake colonies inhabited present day Maryland and Virginia. This difference in settings affected community life in both areas. Though the east coast of North America was settled by the same people of the same ethnicity, the areas developed into two diverse societies due to different religion and economic practices. The New England colonies were very religious based unlike the Chesapeake colonies. In England, the…

New England Forests When the pilgrims arrived in 1620, they cut down most of the forests in the New England area in order to clear land for farming and to build houses. However, from 1850 to 1950, many people abandoned farms in favor of jobs in the textile industry. Others moved away because the land in the Midwest was cheaper. In any case, once these farmers left, the forest ecosystem began to recover. Seeds were carried to the abandoned fields by animals and the wind. Over time, the fields had…

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…

America was settled in the majority by Englishmen of the same nationality, by the time of the 1700s, the New England and Chesapeake regions developed adversely from one another. England sent over numerous groups to these two regions. From the start, New England and the Chesapeake had different values and identities. These differences originated from the reasons that they decided to come to the New World in the first place, and where on the coast they were. This affected the colonies from then on…

search of a life better than the one they had in England. In the early to mid 1600s, two different groups of people, the participants from the Virginia Company and the Puritans. Despite this similarity, both the participants and the Puritans had other intentions of moving to America and with this, many other differences. Taking all the advantages and disadvantages the two groups had into consideration, the state of Rhode Island in the New England colonies would have been in the best condition to…

In the early sixteenth century, the English began the colonization of North America by establishing colonies in New England and in the South. These two regions were very different from one-another and thus provided the colonists with very different challenges. Due to environmental factors such as soil quality and the need for cheap labor, the New England colonies and the Southern colonies were forced to find different economic solutions that would allow them to flourish and survive. The…