The Differences Of The Original English Colonies

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The two English colonies of New England and Virginia were both created based off of the English homeland but they turned out to be two very different places. They both had very distinctive differences in their religious views, society, and with their economies. They were similar in many ways too, but their differences are what formed them as the first English societies in North America. The New England and Virginia colonies had very different reasons to come to America as well. 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. The heads of the households that came over were proven workers from England that were able to start working immediately and were skilled aristocrats. They were males that had worth over in England so they had more power then many of the men that moved over to live in Virginia, who in contrast had no power. The Virginia society was built off of single men that were trying to start over. They were built more to live off of the land. Many of them were farmers and they lived well in the wilderness of Virginia. Most of them had no worth back in England and were just coming over to completely start over and earn new lives. The Economy of the Virginia colony was based on the tobacco industry. The tobacco industry boomed making it the leading cash crop for the Virginia area. This sparked the economy and made it form all around the tobacco industry. The tobacco industry relied heavily on indentured servants and African American
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