Compare And Contrast Chesapeake And New England Colonies

Same Homeland, Different Societies The settlement of both New England and the Chesapeake region were largely dominated by the English. The two areas were products of the same country; children of those who broke away from England with intentions of settling in this New World. However, those intentions varied on the group and the settlement, despite their origins. The people sent over, the actions taken once they got there, and the result of the two presented themselves as opposites to each other depending on the region. The Chesapeake and New England regions evolved into two distinct societies as a result of the immigrants to the Chesapeake searching for money while the New Englanders wanted a family environment through permanent settlement.

Individuals who obtained wealth were favored aboard the ship (F). This same document also talks of the gold diggers of the colony; all everyone did was dig gold to the point where other necessities were shafted to the search of riches. More specifically, the greed of those coming over to the New World caused an insufficiency in the agricultural aspect; nobody grew enough food because all of the immigrants were so intent on finding gold. These inadequate diets made all of the colonists more vulnerable to disease, and disease made it difficult to do everything necessary to build a functioning community. These difficulties, therefore, resulted in a community unable to sustain itself. Moreover, the importance of having money greatly affected military decisions (G). Depicted is an aspect of Berkeley’s reasoning to denying Bacon his requested attack, and that aspect is the hierarchy. Berkeley implies that rich men were not willing to leave their homes and estates to defend indentured servants; defending the poor would be an inconvenience to the rich. This clearly depicts the results of the immigrant’s need for money; it became such an important aspect of their lives it was a deciding

It was said from the start, before the Pilgrims stepped off of the Mayflower, that the goal was religion and community. This idea presented itself to be a common theme for future immigrants as well. During the Great Migration, John Winthrop proposed this idea of community and being religious role models in 1930 aboard a ship before anyone even stepped foot into the colony yet. Winthrop includes the idea of community and what the immigrants must do as individuals to uphold this idea. He describes in detail how every man must support on another regardless of economical standpoint; they will create rules as a community, and while not everyone will agree on everything, they will all follow the rules as a united front (A). Winthrop speaks this with the goal of establishing the flow of society before even stepping off the ship. However, these ideals just claim what everyone should do, not the actual action proving they were more interested in community. The actions that the Puritans took when immigrating to ensure a community environment can be seen based on how the list of people immigrating was separated into sections under the categorization of families (B). There is a more even ratio of women to men sent over than in the Chesapeake region, and individuals migrating over brought their families with