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". in different places so it is no surprised that New England and the Chesapeake were two very different places. So in the late 1600's with people fleeing England because of the overcrowding over there and because of the religious problems and both settled in different places and had to adjust to the living conditions and climates and there whole purpose for coming was completely different so hence they were completely different settlements and as time pass all they could do was grow further and further apart for one another and their motherland of England. such as receiving such profit to properly serve god and their neighbors with their arts and trades and do not enrich themselves suddenly", this shows the first signs of the New England breaking down and away from their original purpose, which is to serve god, not to serve oneself through self gain and indulgence. The people of the Chesapeake also found a new resource to make money off of. Once they got there all their efforts were on finding gold (doc C) as written by Captain John Smith "There were no talk.
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