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Compare And Contrast Chesapeake And New England

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The Chesapeake and New England regions were the first places the English settled when they came across from Europe. American Indian societies had their own way of living before they arrived, but the English brought new ideas with them that transformed and bettered these regions. Although, there were geographical and environmental aspects to the Chesapeake and New England regions that slowed their development during the 17th and 18th centuries, like cold, snowy winters and bugs that ate away at their crops. these regions soon prospered because of the seclusion of their farms from villages, well-watered grounds, and wide range of crops and animals. The Chesapeake’s farms were never far away from a water source. “Every farm, is no more than one …show more content…

This was probably because mosquitoes stay away during those cold months. However, it was good for the inhabitants because it allowed them to stay healthy and not die from these diseases. In the Chesapeake region, they didn’t have many other foods other than their abundant supply of corn, but New England's wide range of animals and plants to eat allowed them to maintain a healthy diet. “They could supplement that with fish for the sea, birds from the air, and animals from the forest” (Hawke 76). This healthy lifestyle made for higher mortality rates and increased the population. The lack of certain foods in a diet lead to pellagra. This was common in the Chesapeake region, which slowed their development before they improved their diet with fresh fruit from orchards and cider to drink instead of water. Lastly, like the Chesapeake, New England built their farms away from the city. Distance from the city “loosened ties with the village, and the later generations of New England...they were cut off from daily contact with the larger world” (Hawke 32). This could be seen as a positive or negative influence on the development of this region because it destroyed the unity among the region. However, the rural civilians were able to create their own customs and not have to abide by what the townspeople told them to

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On page 13, Whitaker states “I have seen it by experience and dare boldly affirm it that sickness doth more rage in England quarterly than here yearly”, and this tells me that sickness does more damage in England in a quart of the time that it does in Virginia (Whitaker as cited in Dudley Cholberg 13). Although illness was in fact a problem starting out, it later got better for the settlers and was no longer as much of an issue. Another

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The Chesapeake’s culture and beliefs were different in many ways. The Chesapeake norms were different from English social norms, which resulted in an unstable region. With the difference between the two cultures, led to relatively ambiguous gender roles for women in the Chesapeake (Berkin, 6). In order to understand the relationship between the men and women in the Chesapeake, one would say it is common for men and women to both marry more than once throughout their lifetime (Berkin 5).

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However this was not the most important thing, the most important thing was their education. Their education can be seen in a way as part of their culture. New Englanders were people who were highly educated and view their education as a way of living and also as a necessity. For the founders of the colony of New England established little settlements that offered education for the kids and also for the adults. Also as the people settled in the colony they brought in with them books and also brought other literal devices that helped them gain more education.

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70,000-100,000 Indians were already settled in the New England area in 1600. By 1700 New England contained only 93,000 Europeans inhabitants. The European and the Indians had different ideals on life and different opinions on how they should use New England’s land. The Europeans lived a life that was very reliant on settled agriculture while the Indians lived off the resources the land provided to them. Europeans were motivated by capitalism.

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This difference was contributed to religious tolerance, economics, and population. Religion was distinctly different between the New England and Chesapeake regions. Although both were overall Catholic, the degree of tolerance for

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The ecological state of New England has evolved drastically over time. Most of this change can be attributed to the arrival of the first Europeans, and their views of the land and the natives already established on the land. They not only impacted the land on which they lived, but also drastically changed the Indians by introducing them to resource commodification and disease which took out large numbers of their population. Through this combined effort the Europeans took a land of plenty and transformed it into a land of scarcity. While the broad implication was the over use of the land, much more came with the Europeans from their homeland.

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New England did not "have all of it 's investments tied up on one place" very like the Chesapeake. The economy depended on angling, shipbuilding, and cultivating. The cultivating in New England was done on a substantially littler scale, notwithstanding. Since the religion (and society) was so family-situated, ranches were generally sufficiently substantial to nourish one 's family, with a little overflow. It was no where close to the span of the huge estates in the Chesapeake.

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