[Doc. B] The list of names that immigrated to Virginia consisted of many males and only a few females with no children. [Doc. C] The list only showed their names and age; this represents that they were not of middle/high class and were not considered as “important”; they also didn’t have as many high classes as New England. The shortage of women also affected the society in Virginia.
They had different religious views, governments, and economies. Intro is too short. More background information on the time period is needed. While the Chesapeake was mainly based on land and slave ownership, the New England colonies were based on religion. They were primarily Puritan, or Non Separatists, and were radical, or intolerant to other religions.
There was little food, new diseases, lots of quarreling between the settlers and they had many problems with the Indians (Document H). The colony was almost devastated before it had a chance to be settled. As a result, New England formed a much more religious society then the Chesapeake region. By the early 1600s, there was an estimated 1300 English colonists in the New World. In 1635, the ship's list of emigrants bound for New England, showed that the majority of travelers were part of a family or a servant coming with a family (Document B ).
It was during the latter 16th and early 17th century that the European nations expeditiously colonized in The New World after its discovery. Spain and England sent many companies to explore its land. England, specifically, had sent people to two particular regions referred to as Chesapeake and New England. Little did anyone know that in the late 1700's, they would form a nation. These two regions were also very different.
In the 17th century, the English established colonies in the new world and created two distinct regions. New England included colonies such as Connecticut and Massachusetts, while the Chesapeake encompassed Maryland and Virginia. Though both regions had English roots, they grew to become two very different settlements with unique features. The differing social patterns, religion, and motivations of New England and Chesapeake colonies created two immensely distinct settlements. Social patterns differed between New England and the Chesapeake, contributing to the disparities between the two areas.
A Web of Chesapeake and New England Colonies John Park Mr. Dowling AP US History (DBQ) 9/11/14 In the early 17th century, there were several factors in England that drove them to colonize the Eastern part of North America. First, the Puritans (English settlers) immigrated to separate themselves from the oppressive Anglican Church. On the other hand, other English immigrants came to the Chesapeake mostly to gain wealth for themselves. Although New England and Chesapeake region were both colonized predominantly by English people, by the early 18th century, two distinct societies emerged, which differed on social, political and economic systems. Social differences were evident in the New England and Chesapeake regions.
(Document A) Since there was a short supply of fresh water, many colonists died of dehydration. Additionally, the document stated that waste in early Jamestown tended to cluster instead of flush away. These mishaps caused disease which eventually led to death. Another hardship the colonists had to endure was their exposure to new deadly diseases. Nearly 70 out of the 110 original colonists lost their lives by
The Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by people of English descent, but by 1700, they had become two distinctly different societies. They had evolved so differently, mainly because of the way that the settlers followed their religion, their way of conducting politics and demographics in the colonies. Even though the settlers came from the same homelandEngland, each group had its own reasons for coming to the New World and different ideas planned for the colonies. On his way to the New World, aboard the Arabella in 1630, John Winthrop, Puritan leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, spoke of the plan that he had in store for the colony. He preached that there would be equality in the new colony and that they " must be knit together in this work as one man."
The Effects of the Black Death The bubonic plague of the fourteenth century caused not only pain and death, but also the formation of new ideas to help Europe after the economic slump they had been in for decades. The plague, which started in Asia, spread throughout all of Europe killing a third of the European population. No one was safe from the pestilence; clergy and nobles died along with the peasants and scum of every infected area. This sickness, that was spread so easily, managed to leave complete wreckage in its path. John Kelly writes about how the Black Death changed everyone’s lifestyle, changing Europe politically, economically, and socially.
This set the stage, and greatly influenced the parenting figures found in Jane Austen’s novels. During the eighteenth century families tended to be fairly large containing over a dozen children. This was mainly because the mortality rate was so high due to what at that time was incurable illnesses. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century “Most children died in their early stages of childhood and therefore many parents deemed it useless to enter into close relationships with their children” (Vink, 11). Children spent most of their time with the nurses, nurses, or governess making them have a closer bond with them more so than their own family.