New England V.S. The Southern Colonies America, The land of the free, is a very different country than it was in the past. Eric Foner a professor of History at Columbia University (author of the book Give Me Liberty) quotes British writer Adam Smith as saying, “The discovery of America was one of the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind”(5). Columbus finding Cuba and Haiti, made way for the British to colonize years later. England’s first colony Jamestown, Virginia, failed repeatedly. They started out looking for gold, and that undertaking failed and the settlement faded away repeatedly for various reasons. Years later, they found a crop to stabilize them. They became tobacco farmers and that crop changed the colonies for years to come. Maryland soon followed Virginia’s example. Then came The New England Colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and others. The southern Colonies differ from the New England colonies, and the culture between the two varied tremendously. Virginia, the first colony, was founded on April 26, 1607(49). Jamestown was founded by the Virginia Company, so that the company could find gold. In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh writes, A Discourse Concerning Western Planting, and listed …show more content…
Williams wanted to strengthen his religious beliefs but disagreed with the Puritans, and that begot the Quaker religion. The Rhode Island colony was the first to offer religious freedom. The government was modeled on Massachusetts other than men did not have to be members of the church to vote (72). Family was extremely important to the Quakers, and they had extremely stable families as like the other New England Colonies they had small farms that the family ran. The southern colonies needed slavery to run their plantations: whereas, New England the farming land was not good for tobacco farming, so slavery was not in high