New England and Chesapeake two distinct regions

Even though New England and the Chesapeake region were both originally settled by the majority of people of English origin, by the 1700’s the two areas advanced into two distinct societies. There were many different reasons why these differences in developing the colonist’s new society occurred. One of three main reasons being the two regions differed because they held unlike motives for settling in the first place. Another example the two regions differed would …

…two separate societies. One being what we now know as the New England area whose motive for settlement was for religious freedom, type of settlers were large white families with indentured servants, and had a self-government under local control. Where as the Chesapeake region varied by being majority of young white men hungry for gold, and had a representative self-government as well as slavery. Proving why the difference in development of the two regions occurred.