North and South DBQ
1. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur? As England went through a boom in the 1600's after recovering from the black death two centuries earlier, the English and most of Europe had worldwide trade and prospered from it, but not all people came into wealth because of this boom and as the English introduce wool and it made open farmland less profitable so people left in search of a better life, and then when Elizabeth the I severed ties with the roman church it lead to religious outcry and reintroduce the religious differences that were in England. So this all lead to people going out and finding more land and exploring beyond their own back yard. So when the Americas where discovered, two types of people left for the new world, the religiously dissatisfied and the very poor trying to find riches in this far off land.Some settled in New England looking for religious freedom and others in the Chesapeake trying to work and earn a living or to find riches beyond their expectations, these people came for two different reasons and two different causes and settled
to defect to them in hopes of bettering their conditions by sharing the plunder in the country with them". The people of the Chesapeake also found a new resource to make money off of. But with everyone united under the name of god, New England became a utopia for a short time with the Articles of Agreement in Springfield and Massachusetts (Document D), where they agreed on "certain orders to be observed and kept by us and our successors. Once they got there all their efforts were on finding gold (doc C) as written by Captain John Smith "There were no talk. In the North lots came on the Mayflower and founded a colony on Plymouth and as they came for religious reasons, they bought their already establish families and sometimes even their slaves so they can start a new life, here is just what one typical family would look like according to a ship's list heading for New England as referred to in document B:Musachiell Benard, of Batcombe, clothier in the county of SomersetMary Benard, his wife, aged 28Jonh Benard, his son, aged 3Nathaniel, his son, aged 1As this document proves that the people went to New England to start a new life with their families looking for work and most importantly religious freedom. But soon man inherent evil and greed got in the way of this utopia (Document E) and pure greed took over and there was serious price gauging and people were looking out for their own well being, not that of the Utopian like culture that they first wanted establish "This court recommends that all tradesmen consider the religious end of their calling. by the public's charge" Again the similar thing happened in New England and now the dissension of the people lead again to the failing of the Chesapeake area.
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