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 be due to the different types of settlers who emigrated to the Chesapeake and New England region. Diverse forms of government would be also a main reason why the two regions differed. With the difference in types of settlers, their motives for settling, and even the form of government they chose to run their settlements is why these differences in development of the two regions occurred. With every settler who dared to cross the vast Atlantic Ocean from England came different motives to even attempt the journey. John Winthrop, leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, states, "We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken... We shall open the mouths
With the difference of motives for settlement also came the different types of settlers that made the New England and Chesapeake region differ. Emigrants who were traveling to the New England area were found to be large white families and their indentured servants. Specifically the emigrants bound for New England from Weymouth, on the 20th of March 1635 consisted of eight fairly large families. The families consisted on an average of a father, mother, children under the age of seventeen years old, their servants, and the servant's children. On the other hand the emigrants who left Ultimo in July of 1635 to embark on a journey to the Chesapeake region, consisted mainly of young white men. However some women did make the trip the ratio men to woman was still about six men for every one woman. Although both regions derived mainly from the English origin, the different type of settlers further widened the gap of difference between the New England and Chesapeake region. of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God." In saying this he proves that one of the main reasons why him and the people on his ship came over was to make an ideal Christian community. They founded the New England area to create this model society to
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