Chesapeake/New England Colony

United States History 1993 Document Based Question David Thompson During the late sixteenth century and into the seventeenth century, European nations rapidly colonized the newly discovered Americas. England chartered groups to two main regions of the New World: the Chesapeake and the New England areas. The Chesapeake region of the colonies included Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia; New England was north of the Chesapeake and included Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Unemployment, as …

…regions clearly differ economically, politically, and socially. The ideals, held by the groups that lead them to create the contrasting societies, are responsible for these differences in society. The fortune-seeking economists in the Chesapeake created a society around this ideal, and the New Englanders promoted a society looking for religious freedom, not economic gain. It is because these motives that the Chesapeake and the New England regions of the New World became so different by 1700.