Compare And Contrast The Three English Colonies

Chesapeake and Plymouth were two of the three early English colonies. While both colonies were located in Massachusetts, and founded around the same time frame, they both had very separate ways of controlling and overseeing the way their colonies were managed. Chesapeake, established around 1630, was given to Lord Baltimore, also known as George Calvert, by King Charles l. This colony brought over many English men as indentured servants. These men received a chance at living in America, and the population already there, received more help. Plymouth was then founded shortly after in 1620. It was the last of the three English colonies to be established. Having watched and learned from the first two colonies, they had an advantage being last

to form in some aspects. Plymouth and Chesapeake had differences in running their government, yet the some of the same social and agricultural aspects to their colony.
Plymouth was not only economically diverse, but very ahead in the industrial world. What they lacked in farming, they made up in industrialization. They were the least religiously diverse, but the Puritans of Plymouth believed religion itself was more important than government. They followed the methods of theocracy. Above all, they worked hard, and earned a plentiful income. Whereas Chesapeake, unlike Plymouth, worked mainly as farmers. They were the most diverse of all the colonies religiously, but they did not feel religion and government should go hand in hand.
Although they were both diverse in their own ways, they still had similar systems, or ways of living. Both colonies traded tobacco for profit. They also developed joint stock companies to make an income from the success of their colonies. One colony many have worked harder than the other, but as a majority, both colonies were made up of hard working individuals trying to make a living in America. At the time, there was no “right” or “wrong” way of organizing and developing a colony, but both Plymouth and Chesapeake experimented many tactics, with the intent that they would flourish.