America New England Colonies
Curiosity and bravery led the English to discover the nations of America. These strong willed Europeans, determined to find to a new world, set out with high hopes and ambitions. Settling a variety of colonies along the coast of North America, the English were among the first true pioneers. After several expeditions and ships loads of emigrants, the English had a divergence of reasons for departing Europe for America. The settlers of the Chesapeake and New England colonies, were foreigners to the land, established two exceptional but contrary societies due to the diversity of English citizens. Chesapeake and New England colonies, although from the same English background, developed distinctions from the very start of the sixteenth century; their reasons for fleeing Europe, political standards, family life, religions and use of land. With King James I offering a charter for the Virginia Company of London, a joint stock company, to prompt a settlement in the New World, profit filled English men couldn't refuse this gracious proposal. A promise of golden lands and a new passage route through America to the West Indies, the hearty men embarked on a journey which to their eyes seemed to be through the vast unknown. Arriving on the shor
es of Chesapeake Bay in 1606, soon they were attacked by Indians. Finally having to settle on the James River (named in honor of their King) the Virginia Company was forced to make their home within a mosquito infested and unhealthily region. Beginning their arduous search from the onset, the stubborn men searched for gold day and night through starvation, malnutrition, and disease. According to Captain John Smith these gold seekers were all men in hope of repayment for commencing on the journey. He described the scene as diligent men digging, washing, refining, and loading gold all in silence. Living from "hand to mouth" induced the gold miners to only be able to provided selves with supplies for the following year. The profit filled English men of the Virginia Company voyaged to America with their hearts in hope for gold and their minds set on discovering this precious metal and nothing else. Meanwhile back in England, around the 1530's King Henry VIII had broken ties with the Roman Catholic Church and was anointing himself the Head of the Church of England. Soon in 1603 King James I become the head of the Church of England causing the Puritans to oppose him as a spiritual leader. Since they could resist him as a spiritual leader and then would certainly defy as a political leader as well. Therefore, King James I menaced then out of the land. Compelled to sail to America in search of religious toleration these English soon founded Plymouth colony. They were separatist known as pilgrims, settled the land in strong belief that they would be free of religious prosecution. Coming to America for entirely opposite motivations, cause these two colonies began to contrast from the very start. Controlling the colonies dealing with separate perspectives on life, Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay colony (part of New England) and Governor William Berkley of the Virginia colony (part of Chesapeake) had a difference in views on the upraisi
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