Economically, the trading and the crops played a big role in the differences as well. Religion varied in both colonies and had affected the colonists. These aspects show the clear distinctions between these two colonies and how they provided a split between them. In these early colonies, class ranks were similar to one’s identity. The higher the class, the more respect and privilege they receive; the lower the class, the less privileges received.
Unlike New England, the Chesapeake region developed a society that was not primarily dependent on religion; most of these people came to America to seek economic prosperity. From the beginning, New England and the Chesapeake region were deviating, which was caused mostly by the fact that settlers developed a society around different goals– that is developing a religious, communal society in New England and seeking gold or cultivating crops for economic prosperity in Chesapeake; in addition, different climate and response to economic gap also contributed to the regions’ differences. New England maintained a strong, communal identity while the Chesapeake remained widely scattered. When New England settlers first arrived, they had strong ties to religion. John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, emphasized in his sermon that they were to be “a city upon a hill”, where everyone can see them and can be represented as a model Christian community (Doc A), which would also shame England into truly reforming the Church of England.
As soon as Europeans began to settle in the New World, it was evident that it would become an extremely diverse melting pot of people. Settled by a predominantly English origin, New England and the Chesapeake region morphed into two distinct societies by the turn of the 18th century. Their differences were fueled largely by their motives in migrating across the Atlantic, the economy and form of government that each colony used, and also the fact that these people originated from cultures that were quite separated. There were many motives and incentives that caused Europeans to move to America. One of the most popular causes of migration to the New World was the search for religious freedom.
Europeans came to the American colonies for many things. One of the main reasons for immigrating was for their freedom from religious persecution. Ironically, when they came they were not tolerant of other religions for the most part. The two main regions, New England and the Chesapeake, differed in the importance of religion, how it affected their government, and how they tolerated it. Most the New England colonies took religion very seriously.
DBQ During the Post-Classical Era merchants played a crucial role in shaping the course of different societies. Christianity in its origin had a more negative view towards merchants while Islam had a more positive one based on the religious documents; however views began shifting during 1500 when Islam views became more negative toward merchants and Christian opinions became more positive as presented by the power of authorities and the actions taken by the merchants. Views on wealth can be seen in the religious documents of documents 1 and 2. Christianity had its first view toward merchants and wealth in the first century C.E. which was a negative one stated by Jesus (Doc.
In the mid 1600’s the New England and Chesapeake areas were just newly developing with the same hopes and goals for the New World. They all sought freedom from England, money, and power. These hopes and dreams became far distant from reality as they were faced with hardships such as Indians, diseases, undeveloped land, and different weather than England. Although these two areas started with the same goals in mind, religious, economic, and cultural differences created two distinct societies by 1700. The New England area was more religious than the Chesapeake causing differences to develop in the two societies.
Despite the common English backgrounds, societies in the New England and Chesapeake regions of Colonial America had split off into two incredibly different cultures: A very religiously focused New England and the more economic-oriented Chesapeake. Because these regions were settled for different purposes, the development of these societies led to the distinctions between them. One of the major causes for emigration, and what made one great distinction between the New England and Chesapeake Bay colonies was geography. The land in the New England colonies consisted of hills and rocks. When the colonists arrived here, their first view would have been the sight of dense forests, and they had to develop ways of life that suited to the landscape.
| Jamestown | A Brief History of Jamestown | | Prof. Hicks | Raheen Blanco | 11/16/2012 | | In 1607 Jamestown, the first permanent British Settlement was founded by those who wanted a start in a new world filled with wonder and promise. By 1700 New England and the Chesapeake region had evolved and changed into two distinct societies due to the differences in the social and economic views by those who settled these two areas of the New World. While both groups were looking for a better life, in the New World their founding fathers held separate intentions when they settled these areas, the Chesapeake region was found on money hungry men while New England was found on a heredity society. In the fall of 1609, several hundred European settlers were struggling to survive on swampy Jamestown Island, riding out a brutal drought and hoping for boatloads of supplies. By the following spring, after a horrific winter that became known as the “starving time,” all but 60 had perished.
As a result, the tension throughout the colonies, eventually led to the First American Revolution. However, at that time in Colonial Virginia, the lax laws were no longer effective in establishing clear policies to deal with problems or to instill new lifeblood into the province’s economy. Simply put, the problems that affected the population before Bacon’s Rebellion gave strength to Nathaniel Bacon. The nature of Bacon’s Rebellion does seem to be the beginnings of America’s quest for independence; however, this was more a coincidence. Closer examination of this period in history illustrates what Jamestown’s condition was a power struggle between two distinct personalities that nearly destroyed Jamestown.
. As time grew on, settlers began to establish governments, economies, and social classes and religion all throughout their particular reason causing great change between most of what was all the same English origin was now beginning to shape out very differently as those three factors impacted the colonists greatly. Those three factors; economic, government and social class/religion shaped the Chesapeake Bay region and New England region to fade away from their same, original English backgrounds and begin to divide from each other and form their own ways of life and government and overall managing their colony and what they knew as