New England vs. Chesapeake circa 1700
The two English societies of the New England and Chesapeake region evolved differently in the 1700's because of their separate motives for coming, their ideas on a basis of a community, and their geography. Each one of these factors made these two primarily English regions into two completely different societies. The people who came and formed New England came for religious purposes. Invading by ships, families, armed with bibles and the hope of religious freedom, came and settled the northern part of the new land. The people who formed the Chesapeake came to make money. The fertile land in the Chesapeake provided new farmers perfect conditions to produce the cash crop tobacco. These new societies contained the same people with different ideals. The people to be known as New Englanders, fled from their religiously oppressive home land and looked to practice their beliefs freely in the New World. This new breed of religious reforming men and women called themselves Puritans. The Puritans wanted a world where they may uphold their beliefs and work for the good of man. As seen in Document D and A, the Puritans set forth articles that would outline the basis of daily life in the community. They agreed to set up
The Chesapeake region was set up in the southern half of the country. This region is used to hot weather and a plenitude of swamps and marshes. These conditions are perfect for the mosquito. This mosquito carried the fatal disease malaria to the farmers in the south. The farmers and servants then would die of the disease and the population would "thin out". The geography of the Chesapeake area allowed malaria outbreaks and because of this the south's population was forced by this disease to stay away from their neighbors. This then changes the way the Chesapeake can operate. The Chesapeake region can not develop the communities like the ones in New England because the New England geography is not hospitable to mosquitoes. The way the Chesapeake region was set up was large tobacco plantations set up sporadically across the land. This setup would have affected the development of a community. A community would not have been in the interest of the farmer for optimal tobacco production. The farms were arranged so that neighboring farmers were miles away from each other. This society was more individual than the communal New England. The people that immigrated to the Chesapeake Bay area came for one thing, money. These people saw the fertile la
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