Compare And Contrast The New England Colonies

In a time when the Native Americans were building complex structures and had control of all of the Americas, the Spanish arrived, and took control from the natives conquering the Americas and leaving behind their influence until 1680. Also in a time when new colonists are arriving from England to America to form settlements, and settlers begin to reconsider their traditions. It is in this context that the Spanish and New England colonists are compared and contrasted. The Spanish and New England colonies from 1492 to 1700 were significantly similar in terms of treatment of indigenous people and considerably different in control of religion and control of European government.

New England consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. While the southern colonies were Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. Even though both of them were in the New World they differ religiously, economically, socially and politically. Both, New England and Southern colonies, made an impact on the development of culture.

The seventeenth century brought thousands of immigrants to the New World in pursuit of freedom and a new life. Many wanted a chance to be free from the poverty in England, others desired freedom from religious persecution. As a result, the American colonies were created, Even though all colonies had English descent many separated into different regions like the New England and Chesapeake colonies because of religious, social ,and political differences. The Chesapeake colonies were created to profit off of gold but their warm climate and fertile land turn them into cash crop giants. On the other hand the New England colonies were trying to escape the religious havoc in England. New England's cold climate encouraged a diverse economy and compact towns which led to many advancements in their religion and education.

Although both the New England Colonies (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake Colonies (Virginia and Maryland) were both settled by people of English origin, by 1700 they were both very distinct for a multitude of reasons; Three of which being, their economics, African Slave population, and their life expectancies.

During the 17th and 18th century, English residents felt that England was over-crowded and intolerable. They wanted to lessen these problems that rose up because of the large population increase and to establish more religious freedom (Horn). The English believed that the best way to go about this was to colonize the New World. Subsequently, many colonies began to develop, and of these colonies, Massachusetts Bay and Virginia were the most well-known. The early settlements of Massachusetts and Virginia were both established by similar groups of people at the same time; furthermore, their contrasting beginnings as a colony, views on religion, and method of economic stability all contributed to our American heritage today.

In the New World, various resources, climates, and considerable amounts of land allowed numerous opportunities for settlers. Those who once yearned to climb the social ladder or gain the freedoms bestowed from land ownership flocked toward the newfound settlements. Colonization proved to be a grueling task; however, success was found after adapting to the new environment and facing many hardships. Two colonies established early in the seventeenth century included Virginia and New England. Both Virginia and New England were forerunning settlements that differed in the following senses: political, social, and economical.

Jamestown presented more prospects to colonists than Massachusetts Bay Colony by allowing more than one religion, workers rights, and freedom of speech. Jamestown settlers had a bond from England guarantees the rights of settlers, as they would have had it in England. The Puritans formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony and they established a charter also. Both colonies had their have and have not in them. Massachusetts Bay Colony encourage the church greatly and Jamestown boost working over religion. The starting of a democracy, equality was from Jamestown.

During the late 16th century and into the 17th century, two colonies emerged from England in the New World. The two colonies were called the Chesapeake and New England colonies. Even though the two areas were formed and governed by the English, the colonies had similarities as well as differences. Differences in geography, religion, politics, economic, and nationalities, were responsible for molding the colonies. These differences came from one major factor: the very reason the English settlers came to the New World. 
The Chesapeake colonies were primarily created by companies interested in profiting from the natural resources of the New World such as gold or silver to bring back to England. The New England colonies were primarily created to escaped religious persecution and set up a haven for people of their faith. The inhabitants of the New England area were far healthier. Their clean water supply was a sharp contrast to the contaminated waters of Chesapeake Bay. The cool climate had a good impact on colonists because it prevented the spread of life-threatening diseases. Because of New England’s cool climate, many people died during severe winters. Chesapeake’s climate had positive and negative factors as well. The warm, moist climate in the Chesapeake colonies carried diseases that killed many of the colonists. In contrast to the New England colonists, the Chesapeake colonists did not have to worry as much about surviving cold winters. The natural resources of the

Comparatively Jamestown and the Chesapeake colonies were very different from the New England colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay. The Plymouth Massachusetts Bay colonies were founded by Puritans to flee religious persecution by the Church of England and were very religious colonies. The Virginia colonies were founded for the king, and with the objective of finding gold and glory in hopes of bringing wealth to Britain. The joint stock company, The Virginia Company, is what funded the exploration into Virginia. The settlement they were to find needed a good port for their three heavy ships.

As the United states was beginning to rise and form, two colonial areas stood out it it’s development; Chesapeake and New England. They were taking shape and defining their economies and labor forces on opposite ends of North America. They both had the same origins but took different paths. The Chesapeake and New England areas developed labor forces that were different because of slaves being skilled or unskilled, similar in that they both used African slaves, and developed in those ways because of differing economies and classes.

Those who settled in the Chesapeake region were fortunate to have been near a peninsula along the James River. They were expecting to find numerous valuables things such as gold, silver, to make profit, and paths to other New Worlds, cures for illness, and other miscellaneous valuables they could profit from. In the Chesapeake region they were governed by London, they had an economy that largely benefited from monocrop plantations. The people who settled in the Chesapeake area consisted of “adventurers, sojourners, and single men”. The political elites were wealthy planters, and culturally were ethnically heterogeneous, and less religious.

The New England, Middle, and Southern colonies have their ups and downs. The New England colonies are cold, but the Southern are extremely warm. The Southern and Middle colonies have good soil for farming, but the New England soil is too rocky to farm much of anything. The New England and Middle colonies have very little slaves, but the Southern colonies have more than half of the world's slave population. The Middle and Southern colonies farm cash crops, while New England colonies do subsistence farming.

The Southern and New England Colony were established as a new start in the new world. But because of the different ethnic groups that traveled to the different regions, they had different conditions. The New England Colony was established for the freedom of religion while the Southern Colony was established for economic opportunity and land. Those are not the only conditions that were different between the New England and Southern colony.

Pious Puritan Rank Ways The New England colonies were founded by men who desired to flee the temptations and sins of the Anglican Church and a closer relationship with God. The New England colonies provide a place where everyone is of one body with Christ. If one member of the community suffers, the whole community suffers. Everyone is tightly bound together by their love of God and each other.

In Europe, population grew quickly and land value, prosperity, and trade increased with it. Also the rise of nationalism made the nation more powerful, unified, and imposed new taxes. Beginning with Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America in 1492, colonists settled in America for different reasons. Some came for profits; others came for religious freedom (and for escaping religious persecution). It was England, France, Spain and the Netherlands who, in the sixteenth century, launched major colonization programs in eastern North America. Each colony more or less differed or resembled in their first interaction with the Natives (such as the more peaceful contact of the French, the more hostile one of the Spaniards, and the peaceful-turned-hostile