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 ...

Wealth: A Main Contributing Factor to Limits on Colonial Unity Colonial America was a veritable melting pot of individuals of all nations fused into a new race of men whose labors and posterity would shape the future. Legends about America painted the picture of a land unsoiled and pure, an asylum...

Religious Freedom Before 1700, the British North American colonies had opposing views on the degree of religious freedom in the new world. There was not one colonial society but three regional orders, New England, the Middle Colonies, and the South, unified by the different acts of the British ...