Many differences characterize the four regions of the English Settlements including the reason for establishment, and the resources within the colony. The reason for establishment varies between the colonies, as the colonists varied in their intentions for settlement. The Southern Colonies were established to seek natural resources and to seek wealth, while The New England colony was established for spirituality reasons: the reason to glorify God. In comparison, the Middle Colonies were established as a way for people of diverse cultures to settle down, and the backcountry was established as a place for families, Germans, and Scottish- Irish people to live within. Another difference amongst the colonies was the resources they had that …show more content…
provided the economy and the people with economically viable goods. The New England Colonies were centered on the industry of shipbuilding, while the Southern colonies relied heavily on agriculture. In fact, “the Southern Colonies were primarily agricultural with few cities and limited schools.” In conjunction to this, The Middle Colonies relied heavily on farmers, merchants, and fisherman because they relied upon agriculture, fishing, and trading commodities, while the backcountry had an abundance of forests and wood, which was it’s main resource. Alongside the differences of reason for settlement and resources, climate and lifestyle are two adional differences amongst these 4 distinct regions. The New England Colonies were ideal for water-powered machinery due to the cold climate it endured. This cold climate varied from the middle colonies, which had a moderate climate (adequate for farming.), from the Southern colonies, which were warm, and the Backcountry, which was very moist. Lifestyle: the last contributing difference amongst the colonists. People in the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies centered their life around religion; the New England colonists went to the Puritan church, while the people of Southern Colonies went to the Anglican Church. In comparison, to the religious people of the New England and Southern Colonies, people in the Middle colonies and the Back Country experienced a rural life that was rugged and focused on farming because agriculture was a prominent aspect of society. As the English Settlements established along the Atlantic Coast, people found different ways to settle in the settlements including ways to obtain religious freedom, ways to get economic gains, ways of avoiding prison, and ways of providing involuntary services (enslavement).
Religious freedom was a primary reason people moved and settled in the English Settlements, so “colonies such as Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were settled by people seeking religious freedom, “In Maryland, people tried to escape the Church of England so they came over on the Mayflower, a ship that transported Pilgrims from Plymouth to the English Settlement of the New England region. In Massachusetts, the Puritans arrived with the intentions to escape persecution in England, and with the intention to purify the church. In addition to religious freedom, people settled in the English Settlements for economic gains especially in the Southern Colonies. The southern colonies attracted people who wanted revenue through crash crops, which were grown to sell for profit and included tobacco, rice and, indigo. Enslavement, the last key component to people reasons to settled in the Atlantic Coast, was centralized around slaves and indentured servants who were brought to the colonies because they were forced to work on lands to pay others back (indentured servants) or to live the rest of their life in forced labor (slaves). Evidently people had different motives for going to the English settlements, whether it was voluntary or
involuntary. Great Britain saw the colonies as a profitable source of wealth by the 1700’s, which allowed England to view the colonies as a source of natural resources: lumber, fur, tobacco, fur, sugar, and iron. This mentality of acquiring riches from the colonies also caused England to view the colonies as a marketer “ for England’s goods such as silk, linens, and teas,” which allowed for a mercantilism system, a system in which “ the wealth of the mother outcry England would be increased by heavy government regulations of imports and exports to the colonies” to arise. Due to the mercantilism system, the colonies supplied raw materials and were forced to purchase consumer goods, allowing England to create strict enforcement such as “admiralty courts to try violations of the laws” and strict acts (the navigational act, and the molasses act). Evidently, England became wealthy through the mercantilism system they enforced and imposed upon the colonists. England was one of the most powerful countries, due to the colonist’s quest to find new opportunities in the English Settlements of the New England, Middle, Southern colonies, as well as in the Back Country, which are characterized by their differences in their reason for establishment resources, climate, and lifestyle,. These differences amongst the 4 regions which led a heterogeneous mixture of settlers to spread amongst the Atlantic Coast, who wanted to acquire better conditions away from England: avoid persecution, get economic gains, avoid prison, and provide enslavement. The 13 colonies, which are the 4 regions of the New England colonies, the Middle Colonies, the Southern Colonies, and the Backcountry are essential to our understanding how aspects of today’s current world has come about including the need to contend menacing mother countries, the need for a strong government structure, the establishment of states, the need to survive hardships of a mother country, and the need to gain profit via an inferior region.
I believe colonial New England had more of an effect on the American character than Virginia for several reasons. First they promoted more of the values that have transcended into modern day America such as religious toleration, their educational ideas and their focus on the importance of family. And we shouldn’t forget the fact that the American Revolution began in New England so in essence the America we know today would not exist without New England.
The New England and Southern colonies, although they had their differences, did share a similar government system. However, the differences on a economic, religious, and social level overrode the similarity shared, making the two regions different nonetheless. The New England’ colonies focus on a business economy made them a central area of trade and commerce, but in the long run created society open to innovation and brought in new inventions. Whereas the Southern colonies’ focus on agriculture economy brought a sensation of profits for the mother country, but later attributed to the introduction of slave codes. Then, in the New England colonies, the religious restrictions increased tensions between the Separatists and Puritans, which later
The English Settlement in the New World was largely the result of the Age of Exploration. The English started emigrated to the New World around the early 1600s; they settles in regions including the New England and the Chesapeake region and by the 18th century these two regions had developed their own society. These two regions had developed different political, economic and social system in their regions. The political differences were due to who governs the colony. The economic differences were due to the motives of the settlement. The social differences were due to the people who settled there, while the New England emigrated as a family, the Chesapeake emigrated with mostly male.
Q 1. The American colonies were divided into three distinct regions and these regions were different from each other in their origins, populations, economics and agriculture, religious makeup, and connection to England .write an essay comparing and contrasting the New England, middle, and southern colonies with specific examples.
The New England, Middle and Southern colonies were all English ruled, but yet very different. Among their distinctions, was the geography which played an important role in shaping these colonies. New England attracted Puritan farmers who wanted to separate from the Catholic Church. But because of the bone dry soil in the North, these colonists found they couldn't continue with their traditional ways of farming. However, with the immense amounts of water that surrounded them, they found that they could fish and trade. The Middle colonies on the other, hand had a moderate amount of everything. The fertile soil and the major seaports such as Philadelphia and New York, allowed these Middle colonists to make a living any way they saw fit. This led to the brisk development of the Middle Seaboard . Unlike the Middle and Northern colonies, the Southern colonies had large amounts of fertile land allowing for the development of large plantations. Because farming the plantations was the economic thrust for the South, towns and cities developed slowly. Thusly Geography greatly affected the lifestyles of these regions in the New World.
During the 1700's, people in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives, others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy, religion, and motives for colonial expansion. The colonists of the New England area possessed a very happy and healthy life. This high way of living was due in part to better farming, a healthier environment, and a high rate of production because of more factories. The colonists of the Chesapeake Bay region, on the other hand, led harder lives compared to that of the colonists of New England. The Chesapeake Bay had an unhealthy environment, bad eating diets, and intolerable labor.
There were a myriad of differences between Great Britain and her American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but these differences can be divided into three basic categories: economic, social, and political. The original American settlers came to the colonies for varied reasons, but a common trait among these settlers was that they still considered themselves British subjects. However, as time passed, the colonists grew disenfranchised from England. Separated from the king by three thousand miles and living in a primitive environment where obtaining simple necessities was a struggle, pragmatism became the common thread throughout all daily life in the colonies. It was this pragmatism that led the colonists to create their own society with a unique culture and system of economics and politics.
The establishment of colonies in America took place within distinct circumstances. Some colonies were founded for the purpose of political and religious havens and pursuit of individual freedom and happiness. People came to the New World expecting a place where the rules in the Old World, such as hereditary aristocracies and dominance of church and state, would not apply. Other colonies such as the Carolinas, and Pennsylvania were established by either proprietors, or individuals who had an ideal for a place that could embrace everyone with his/her own will. With people who sought liberty in believes and equality in rights and founders of colonies who were not under direct rule or servitude to the Kings and Queens in Europe, the English colonies
The colonists immigrated to the New World in search of religious freedom. Their entire early experience was a constant struggle for survival. To the colonists the New World was their way out of poverty and into the
There were various reasons why the American Colonies were established. The three most important themes of English colonization of America were religion, economics, and government. The most important reasons for colonization were to seek refuge, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. To a lesser degree, the colonists sought to establish a stable and progressive government.
I believe many of the motivators for the Europeans to move to and colonize North and South America was due to material gain and religious freedom. First I would like to talk about several of the material gains that were either made or expected to be made in the move to explore North and South America's. When the plans were being set out for the new colonies and the different propels that were laid out some of the ideas that were look at heavily were the material gains. One gain was the level of workload in some areas. It was believed that by moving to the United States that farming living conditions and making a living for themselves would be made much easier. An example of this was the Holland plantation. The settlers of that area could see their lives and the life of their colony decreasing severalty due to the heavy amount of work required and only made harder by area that they lived in. They finally made the decision to leave Holland for the United States after seeing that a lot of their children were becoming decrepit at a young age because they had to take on their own work load but also that of their parents which was too much of a burden for most of them to handle. The also had a problem with their youth for several different reasons would decide to leave their colony and peruse their own goals or just move into a larger city usually getting into trouble and going against most of what they were taught by their parents and their families. The situation that this colony was in though was not felt by most of settlers that chose to explore and colonize the Americas. Some of the other material gains that were looked at and therefore a driving force for some people moving to the Americas were farming. It was known that unlike in most of the other regions at the time land was amply in the Americas at that time. With a lot of the new settlers being farmers this was a great thing for them because it gave them a great chance to buy a large enough piece of land for them to sustain themselves as well as a family at the same time being able to look ahead to their children's future knowing that they would be able to do the same and not have to worry about being able to get land.
There were many reasons why the colonists came to North America. One reason was because they wanted to escape King Edward so they could fallow freely their own religion and to seek riches. Also the Puritans came to North America because they wanted a lace to practice their religion without fear of the government. Also that the religion they wanted to practice was considered more fundamentalist than what was being practiced from where they came. the English colonies were successful in North America was because the British tried so many times to get more money the colonists got mad and boycotted- refuse to use-the British goods. Then the British government kind of loosened their restraints and gave the American colonists some freedom.
Though the Puritans, as well as some later groups, fled to the American colonies to escape religious persecution or restrictions, the fact remains that the Puritans had been granted "a charter from King James" for their settlement. Thus, the colonists who came to America for religious reasons were serving the primary purpose of generating profits for the Mother country of England (Boorstin et al.
Who, how, and why the colonies were settled made a big variations in the lifestyles among the three different regions. These differences became more pronounced when it came time to create a government that would include these people with different beliefs and ways of living.
The English began colonizing North America for economic, social, and religious reasons. In the 1600s, there were many tensions rising in England. There were disputes over land. At the time, there was simply not enough land to sustain the population. During this time, many people were also looking to move up in social status. They were no longer satisfied with where they were. There was also mounting religious conflict during this time. England implemented a nationwide religious policy. Many people disagreed with forcing a religion on people; therefore, they chose to leave England in search for religious freedom. For these reasons, people chose to migrate to North America.