New England and Chesepeake Bay Colonies DBQ

In the period leading up to the 1700s, the New World experienced a vast separation between the many English settlers who had arrived there. The colonists of English origin parted and took different paths, one leading many to the Chesapeake Bay/Virginia area and another to the Massachusetts Bay Colony/New England territory. Although similar in origin, the New World settlers divided and evolved into two very distinct societies with varied ideals, morals, and ways …

…one to one and many of the settlers are moving in families of up to nine people. The “Ship’s List of Emigrants Bound for Virginia” (Document C, page 10), however reveals a hugely dominant ratio of men to women with few people of the same family. And so it is clear that the greed and separation on the Chesapeake side and the unity and charity of the New Englanders is what lead to this separation.