Colonial Life DBQ
There are several reasons as to why the colonies of the Chesapeake and the colonies of New England differed so greatly. The reasons all had to do with the climates, the religions, the people, and their motives for coming to the areas in which they settled. The climates of New England and the Chesapeake area differed greatly. This factored in and effected several different key differences. The climate down south was more conducive to cash crops such as sugar, tobacco, and rice- while New England's rocky and infertile soil catered to a lifestyle that revolved around manufacturing. The north would purchase crops from the south and then use them to manufacture goods. Then, they would sell the finished products to the south or to England. This ensured economic stability because Britain always bought products from the colonies, and the south depended on the north for finished goods. The climate also affected the quality and length of life. In the Chesapeake region, life expectancy was rather poor. Diseases like malaria were not uncommon and long days working in the fields often took years off one's life. Another problem was that when the colonists who had come to the south arrived, most were
There were also many pregnant women who had yet to marry. They persecuted many that did not believe in their ideals and who dared to challenge them. So from the start, their numbers dwindled and many died over the first few years there. But all were affected by the same entities. "Radicals" such as Anne Hutchinson and William Bradford were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The New England area was settled mostly by Puritans who wished to escape England to pursue their own ideas, practice their religion freely, and set fire to suspected witches. They went for personal and national gain, and so religion didn't concern them as much as it did the New Englanders. Two, they had people that they could trust and share with. Great preachers like John Edwards and George Whitefield tried to revitalize the Congregational(Puritan) Church by giving long sermons about Though Massachusetts, Connecticut, and much of upper New England(Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont) were Congregational, there were also colonies in the north that differed. As seen in Documents B and C, those who came over to the New World has different family lives. As John Winthrop said in document A, "We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having. Their reasons for heading to the colonies differed from those of the southerners. Almost all the colonies, with the exception of Maryland which was known as a catholic haven, belonged to the Church of England, or the Anglican Church. our community as members of the same body.
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