Differences between Cheasapeake and New England Colonies

There were many differences between the Chesapeake and the New England colonies. Their structures, planting styles, families, and health all differed from one another. The New England colonies made structures that would last and then lived there year round, where as Chesapeake colonies moved 4 or 5 times a year. This all had to do with the different planting styles that each had. Chesapeake colonies planted and then split into different groups so that they could take …

…Due to the high infant mortality rate and the broken marriages because of death and/or servitude. Chesapeake parents rarely lived to see their offspring marry and so had little control over it. Chesapeake colonists lost about 10 years off their English life expectncy. Whereas New England life expectancy was greater than the mother country’s life expectancy. There were many other differences not mentioned between the two colonies, it is impossible to name them all.