New England And The Puritan Colonies

America was looked upon as a place of prosperity and new beginnings in late 1600s and early 17th Century. European explorers brought back ideas of freedom and economic opportunity. Two regions in North America knows as the Chesapeake and New England regions were quickly inhabited by English settlers. Although the two regions would eventually come together as one, they both developed very differently in political, economical, and social ways. All differences between the Chesapeake and New England areas were mainly based on a search for religious freedom and economic success.

The seventeenth century brought plenty of changes to North America. One of the most significant ones was the formation of the thirteen colonies along the North American east coast. These colonies are generally divided into New England, Middle and South or the Chesapeake regions. Most of these colonies were settled by the British, yet they developed differently as the years went by. Some developed into more egalitarian colonies and some not. The greatest differences could be seen in the New England and Chesapeake regions. Even though the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled originally by The British, they had their own differences which were influenced by many of factors, including the reasons they were founded, their social

As previously stated, different motives for colonization were partially responsible for transforming the New England and Chesapeake regions into two unique societies. The New England colonies were formed for religious reasons whereas the colonies of the Chesapeake region were formed for economic purposes. To emphasize, the people that settled in the New England colonies had been previously punished by their king, Henry VIII, for being non-anglican and in turn they left the church of England for the Netherlands (they became known as separatists due to how they separated themselves from the Church). The Netherlands didn’t happen to work out for the separatists, so they went to the New World and settled in the New England region. Based on this, it could also be said that the separatists were seeking permanent settlement (as they wanted to escape religious persecution) whereas those in the Chesapeake region

The New England colonies rapidly developed though out the 1600s. This mass of development was influenced by the Puritans, whom founded a majority of the New England and several Middle colonies. The Puritan philosophies and values formed and directed the progress of the colonies. Socially, strict emphasis on church and community was influential in other colonial settlements as well. Politically, unification and representation derived from the Puritans. Economically, ideas such as fair pricing originated through the Puritan minds. It is obvious that the ideas held by Puritans grasped the social, political and economic maturity of the New England colonies in the time period of 1630 to 1660.

Although the Chesapeake Bay Colonies and New England colonies were both founded by men of English origin, during similar an era, they gradually developed very different societies. The Chesapeake Bay Colonies were fabricated originally for the sole purpose of amassing financial profit through the collection and trading of gold. New England Colonies, however, were made to develop the Separatist Church. Colonists belonging to these colonies left England during the Protestant Reformation of the English Church to escape the persecution of King James I. After further analysis of the documents provided (A-H) it becomes evident why the New England Colonies and Chesapeake Bay Colonies eventually evolved into two very different regions exhibiting different

The reasons for this distinct development were mostly based on the type of people from England who chose to settle in the two areas. For example, the people who settled in New England were religious separatists, while people who immigrated to the Chesapeake region had no religious motives.“Forty-Five thousand Puritans left England between 1620 and 1640” (Document, 9). Puritans came to America to practice religious freedom because in England they changed the Roman catholic church into the church of England. Furthermore, John Winthrop and other members of the colonies wanted to have a “city upon hill” (Document, 1). They were trying to obtain a pure colony

Differences in the Colonies There have been many differences throughout United States history in different areas. For example, by 1700, the New England and Chesapeake colonies had turned into two disparate societies. At the time, people were either coming over due to religious or economic motives. These people settled in New England, which were the Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire colonies; as well as the Chesapeake region, which consisted of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.

Comparing and Contrasting The New England Colonies and The Chesapeake Colonies The 16th and 17th centuries were a time of great discovery and colonization of the New World by Europe. England’s history played a fundamental part in the formation of these colonies. The east coast of North America was settled by Englishmen with similar backgrounds and religious motives, but by 1700 they had developed into two very distinct societies, The New England colonies, and the Chesapeake colonies. This essay will compare and contrast the many differences in politics, economics, religions, and geography as well as the similarities between the two colonies.

The New England region was mostly Puritan which they made the essential part of daily life by being a perfect society or “a city upon a hill.” (Document A) The Chesapeake was religious, but mostly known for being Anglican as the settlers were examined for their conformity to the church according to document C. The church was an important factor to the settlers, but they did not include it in their politics like the puritans did. In New England, one could not vote unless they were a member of the church. This strongly differs from the mercantilistic and aristocratic ran government of the Chesapeake when you just had to be a free, property owning man in order to vote. The chesapeake region was considered a more free area, but if you did not do well within the society, no one would help you unlike the the New England region which didn’t allow privacy or social standing because it was sinful to not help one's

The New England region and the Southern colonies developed into three distinct societies by the 1700’s. New England is generally considered to include the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. While the Southern Colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Colonial America regions, each had different motives entirely different from the others. Moreover, religion and religious tolerance was completely different in each region. Geography structured each region which then created their own identity and developed differently due to different lands. Throughout the colonization of Colonial America, motives, geography, and political structure developed distinctions in the

The English established colonies in the Americas because they had religious freedom, better body politic, and to help Catholics. In the New England colonies passengers of the Mayflower planned to settle in Virginia to form, “a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation.” In the Middle colonies the Dutch West India Company sent families over to New Amsterdam. The company gave land to anyone who purchased 50 settlers to work the land to increase the amount of settlers in the colony. In the Southern colonies the English established the colony of Maryland because, Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore wanted to get a fortune and establish a safe place for other Catholics that were being persecuted in England.

Massachusetts country was colonized by the English as well. The Puritans was living in England but did not like England’s religious belief. The puritans and a group of people called the pilgrims sailed away from the country to start a new life of their own religion. On their journey, the first year of settling, the settlers lost some of the pilgrims because of the disease spreading. In the early time period, the English colonies of Massachusetts and Virginia was created by the same group of people. Their differences and similarities begins when looking into the religious, political and social development.

In one of the stories about the American founding, settlers that came to America inherited a “vast, unpopulated land” . Due to the abundance of land, settlers did not have to fight for resources . Therefore, everyone had had an equal opportunity and it followed that there was no need for a hierarchical feudalistic system in order to distribute the land . This in turn became the foundation of American liberal thought. Additionally, the settlers had also adopted some ancient republican ideas and this led to the creation of a complex American political thought with characteristics of both liberalism and republicanism. Although both paradigms seem to contradict each other to a large extent and hence one would expect that both paradigms may be unable to coexist in the same political environment, in this essay, I argue that in American politics, liberalism and republicanism coexist, interact and overlap to a large extent. This is illustrated in the adoption of both paradigms by the settlers of the New World. For this essay, I will focus specifically on the Puritan settlers and how Puritanism involved aspects of both republicanism and liberalism. Additionally, I will illustrate how both paradigms are also present to a large extent in the respective, uniquely American arguments of both the anti-federalists and federalists and in the Constitution and its 10 amendments.

This was mainly due to the New England Colonies have influence of Puritan values and beliefs. One of the biggest differences between the Chesapeake colony and the New England colonies was that the Chesapeake colony was mainly made for commercial profit, as opposed to the New England colony which the main reason for settlement was for religious freedom. That influenced the importance of economy because Puritan’s don't care much for material goods which mean that their top priority isn't their economy. This resulted in a major social difference between the two colonies; the women in Chesapeake colonies were able to enjoy more freedom than the women in the New England colonies because of the uneven ratio of men to women in the Chesapeake colony. This is a drastic contrast to the what the women in the New England colonies faced as Puritan values dictated that they listen and answer to men. Another drastic difference was that the Chesapeake colony was governed by representative assemblies such as the House of Burgesses, where as the New England colonies were governed by a religious hierarchy due to their heavy influence from puritan values. Puritan values and beliefs influenced their social norms and standards, their economic relationships with other colonies, and ultimately, their government and how their politics affected the

While the people of the New England area and of the Chesapeake area came from English origin, by 1700 both areas had moved in two different directions. Both of these groups were “blessed” with issues that were unique to their regions, and each was forced to reconstruct their societies. As a result, the differences in the motivation, geography, and government in the New England and Chesapeake regions caused great difference in the development of each.