While the Chesapeake people longed for riches, the New Englanders sought religious freedom, particularly from the Church of England. The Church of England was under the rule of Henry VIII. It was a completely different denomination as the Catholic and the Calvinists. The Separatists came to New England in hopes to be able to worship and practice freely and without suppression. As much as these settlers wanted to separate from the Church of England, they still used much of the English ways as far as their economy and many of their stabilizing systems.
Religion shaped the development of the colonial society from the 1600’s to the 1700’s. The New England and Chesapeake people left Europe for different reasons. New England had initially created their society swiftly and it was easier for them compared to the Chesapeake region. This is because their religion and what they believed brought them together as a team or community so they could meet their goals, and both are successful in the end. They both had differences and reasons for leaving Europe, religion and beliefs.
He and other Congregationalists believed Charles I was more hostile to the Puritans than his father had been. Under his leadership, the Church of England attempted to suppress Puritan practices. Apprehensively, the Congregationalists were convinced that they will no longer be able to practice their religion freely in their homeland. They wanted to remain committed to reforming the Church of England but considered the thought that they can pursue that aim in America. John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, organized the initial migration of the Puritans, transferring the Massachusetts Bay Company headquarters to New England where they settled in the
But lives are not. We must spare people the ordeal of war, mutilations and death for the sake of conflict diamonds”(Conflict Diamonds-UN- 1). Conflict diamonds and African customs are powerful enough and most likely to tear a family apart. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible the Price family is torn apart because of African customs, similarly, conflict diamonds separate and displace many African families. Diamond conflicts began with a small, yet important, discovery of a “pretty pebble” along the banks of the Orange River in South Africa in 1867 (Saari 1).
By 1700, their religious practices, family relations, and political differences led them in two different directions. New England was a refuge for religious separatists leaving England, while people who immigrated to the Chesapeake region had no religious motives. John Winthrop states that the Puritan goal was to form "a city upon a hill", which would represent a "pure" community, where Christianity could be pursued (Document A).To New England, religion was considered to be most important thing while the colonists that landed at Jamestown in 1607 were not as religiously inclined as the Puritans. The History of Virginia, written by the leader of the colony John Smith in 1624, describes how hard it was in the first few years at Jamestown (Document F). There was little food, new diseases, lots of quarreling between the settlers and they had many problems with the Indians (Document H).
Early settlers had a variety of reasons for seeking a new homeland. The Pilgrims of Massachusetts were spiritual, self-disciplined English people who wanted to escape religious persecution. Other colonies, such as Virginia, were founded principally as business ventures. Colonists viewed America as a place they could go to practice their religion freely. However, most people looked badly upon religions outside of their own.
This essay will compare the Chesapeake and New England settlers’ reason for emigration, economies, demographics, religion, gender roles, and relationships with the Indians. The Chesapeake settlers were looking to make money quickly and with the least amount of work. Many of the settlers would rather search for gold than work for it. Eventually, this proved to be non-sustainable until gold was found in farming tobacco. Tobacco use increased due to Europeans enjoying smoking tobacco, and it's perceived medicinal benefits.
The Massachusetts settlers were first and foremost interested in religion: they had come to America for the religious freedom to follow their ideals and wished to extend religious tolerance to all in their new colony (Doc A). Their shared interest in religion enabled them to get along well with
The English did not have much money aand it did not help the British much. (DOC F) The British are trying to get more money to support their military and its increase in territory and populatoin. (DOC F) The British are the saying the amount of revenue they're getting is too little. (DOC F) Although, in my opinion, the British should not expect the Americans to pay anything because the war had nothing to do with Americans. Ideologically, Britian and the Americans had different views on everything.
Puritan immigrants arrived in New England, during the 1600s, settling and establishing in areas like Massachusetts Bay. In contrast to the Chesapeake region’s settlers, the Puritan settlers did not only come for economic interests, but rather out of aspiration to create a more pure, Christian society based on moral living and emphasis on the family and community. The Puritans had a strong impact on the development of the New England region, based on their religious emphasis and support for a theocratic political structure. By organizing their society based on their want to create a theocracy, the Puritans ensured that their values and ideas had a great impact on the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from 1630s through the 1660s. In the political development of New England, the Puritans influenced the region by basing the political structure on a theocratic model that enforced firm moral obedience.