The Chesapeake and New England Colonies The English colonists who settled in New England and Chesapeake areas created societies with very different characteristics. Despite most of the colonists coming from the same mother country, the settlers traveled to America for separate reasons and thus maintained varying lifestyles. These differences were noticeable in social structure, economic outlook, and religious background. The diversity of the regions was the foundation for the emergence of two unique societies by 1700. The New England area consisted of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven.
America was a place for dreams and new beginnings, until white people arrived in 1607. Three groups sailed over the treacherous Atlantic from their cruel lives in England to set up peaceful religious colonies. The only problem is that they attempted to settle in their own way and all failed dismally. The New England, Middle and Southern Colonies grew differently over the period 1619-1760.Examining the three sets of colonies will prove that they were all different: socially, economically, politically but not philosophically. Socially the three groups of colonies developed differently.
In the middle of the 18th century the American colonies experienced two major revivals that had lasting effects on the country regarding religion, government and society. The First Great Awakening was a Christian revitalization movement that swept first European countries and then, in the 1730s and 1740s, the colonies in America. Church leaders, such as Jonathan Edwards or George Whitefield, got concerned that the colonists lost their religious zeal and preached in a dramatic and emotional style, attracting a large following. The new faiths that emerged were much more democratic in their approach and they lessened the hold of the Anglican Church which was later applied to a political field. Through the Awakening, the Colonists realized that religious power resided in their own hands, rather than in the hands of the Church, or any other authority.
As Elizabeth Fox-Genovese stated in the text Religion and Women in America, they were expected to “live a Christian life in what clearly was not a Christian world.” However, at this time, women viewed all of these duties as a religious “calling.” The Puritans of the 1600s strongly believed each person held responsibility for their own souls, but since worshipping occurred to a male God, the role of natural leaders of the churches belonged to men. Like most colonized areas of the time, there was no separation of church and state and churches and government overlapped, resulting in men holding sole power. The Puritans saw marriage as the “basic unit of social order and as a sign of religious grace,” as the text states. Married couples held the responsibility of adoring each other; however, men had the right by law to beat their wives, as long as it was not “too severely.” Nevertheless, who decided the extent of the severity? Other men.
The Mayflower Voyage The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade under the relatively lenient Dutch laws. Due to economic difficulties, as well as fears that they would lose their English language and heritage, they began to make plans to settle in the New World. Their intended destination was a region near the Hudson River, which at the time was thought to be part of the already established colony of Virginia. In 1620, the would-be settlers joined a London stock company that would finance their trip aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship, in 1620.
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
The uncommitted, however, comprised approximately two‐fifths of the population, and the outcome of the war ultimately depended on them. As a European conflict and a worldwide war for empire, Britain opposed the United States, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. American social conditions and British strategy shaped the course and determined the outcome of the civil war; but logistical and diplomatic factors governed the war's global phase, and these would strongly influence the nature of American independence. By 1775, the population of British North America was doubling every twenty‐six years. High birth rates and heavy immigration bespoke easily available land, widely distributed among the farming population.
But Mary never knew what Elizabeth had in mind. Elizabeth established Protestantism as the England's religion once again. During her reign, a major accomplishment of hers was the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 132 by the English fleet of 34 ships and 163 armed merchant vessels. Elizabeth earned a lot of respect from her people, and was referred to as “The Peoples Queen”. Now, what if someone else had come to power?
Jenny Pham Pd. 5 DBQ As the new world was discovered, the British started to migrate its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Large populations grew in America, which eventually evolved into two distinct societies during the 1600s: the New England colonies and the Chesapeake Bay colonies. Although there were similarities between these two regions like, consisting of the same motivations and rights, the differences such as a plantation versus a religious society caused the disparity of the two regions as one region progressed faster than the other. The New England and the Chesapeake Bay regions had many comparisons of which consisted of the same motivations, rights, and religious life.
A lot of people moved to colonial America. They moved to colonial America either because the were forced to, or protested there king. Slaves were forced to move to colonial America to do labor work for Americans. The English, who became the Americans moved there because they were sick of there King’s laws and religious requirements. African slaves were forced to move to colonial America.