The Jamestown and Plymouth colonies were established with different economic intentions, leadership, and survival tactics. While Jamestown settlers had Gold and other economical gains on their mind establishing their colony, the Pilgrims sought after religious freedom as they established their colony in Plymouth. Jamestown colonists were outrageous adventurers: “Economic motives prompted colonization in Virginia” (National Park Service). The Plymouth colonists, however, sought America for a different purpose: Freedom from religious persecution motivated the Pilgrims to leave England and settle in Holland, where there was more religious freedom. However, after a number of years the Pilgrims felt that their children were being corrupted by the liberal Dutch lifestyle and were losing their English heritage.
The New England area consisted of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven. Most of the settlers in New England were Puritans who left England during the Great Migration beginning in 1629. They did not agree with the principles of the Church of England. As a result, hundreds of Puritans embarked on the journey to the New World, bringing along their families to set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In contrast, the Chesapeake region included Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Virginia and Massachusetts are considered to be two of the most well known colonies that resulted from European expansion and conquest. Although economic development in both colonies began around the same time, the way they were “brought up” created various distinguishable differences between them. The differing religions and views of the people who began these two colonies' development led to their very different political and economic systems. Although both colonies were established at the same time, Massachusetts and Virginia developed to be two very different places. The Virginia Companies was not as successful as Massachusetts because Massachusetts' success came through smart decisions regarding food and planning.
The colonists that came to Virginia were initially coming as single males to find gold and treasure. They wanted to come to America to get rich and start over. The New England colonists were just a bunch of aristocrats who were searching for religious freedom. The New England society was built off of family units with proven worth back at the homeland. They started off right away by sending over family units instead of single males like the Virginia colony was started.
Trade was an essential part of these societies. The bazaars and town markets where this trading took place was a place rich with many different cultures, foods, farming supplies and techniques, the latest weaponry, politics and news. Without this, these civilizations would’ve advanced slower and there would’ve been a high possibility that they would’ve become ethnocentric much like the early Chinese civilizations were. But trade was inevitable where the Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies grew. They each lived on flat planes around large rivers where it would be pretty easy to communicate to the other societies around them.
In addition to that, the Spanish colonies tended to be controlling. They were based around digging up gold and silver and exporting it back to the Old World, especially in South America. They did not have an aspiration for mass emigration, nor the change of a successful colonial elite. They were satisfied with a small team of Spaniards to exploit the wealth of their newly conquered territories, and export it back to Europe. In some ways like the British in India, except for the fact the Spanish didn't really have manufactured goods to sell to South America like the British in India.
The excerpt from Clarence Ver Steeg’s The Formative Years tells why people were exported to America. The English were overcrowded, and wanted more people to settle in there new colony, America. The people they exported were low life people like slaves, criminals, and unwanted people. John Winthrop believed that the Puritans moved to England to follow there King, but not follow his religious beliefs. James Adams believed that the primary motive for people to move to America was to not follow the King’s laws.
Since many men died at a young age, women had the right to inherit their husband’s wealth and estate. This set the Chesapeake apart from the New England colonies. The Chesapeake people were saved from failure by Captain John Smith with his rule of “He who shall not work shall not eat.” The New England area was founded by Pilgrims, or Separatists. The Pilgrims made the voyage across the Atlantic in 1620 for more religious reasons. They wanted a place where they would be free to worship their own religion and could live and die as good people.
The Romans were especially successful in building an economically sound empire. As one would think, production is the first step in the process of making a profit. The Romans had a large variety of items that they produced. Examples include iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin and wine. They were able to produce most of these items due to their large range of labor, from slave farmers to wealthy merchants.
God is revealed in the Bible. In 1620, the Mayflower arrived to America form England with people who were, in the majority of the cases, puritans that wanted to live in a better way travelling to America. When the ship arrived in Plymouth, the people who were travelling in the ship (not all the people, because people of the crew and several male servants were not allowed to do it) signed a compact which is considered the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. This compact, called “The Mayflower Compact” was