Mr.
By: Mike • Essay • 300 Words • November 8, 2009 • 1,196 Views
Essay title: Mr.
“No longer the land of opportunity”- a term used to define the colonies as of 1700, because of the decline in demand for tobacco and the increase in the scarcity of potable land
“New England was different from the Chesapeake”- Chesapeake was an agricultural based society where tobacco was the main crop grown by mainly indentured servants and other small farmers, main cash crops included rice, indigo, and tobacco, unlike the Chesapeake the New England colonies had a short growing season and had towns instead of spread out plantations, also in New England religion shaped society so that you were not a member of society if you were not a member of the church, New England was a very puritanical and strict society, another difference is the environment the Chesapeake had a longer, warmer season and better soil, the Chesapeake was also much more reliant on trade, socially the colonies were very diverse as well the New England colonies based everything of their puritanical religions while the Chesapeake had social class distortion and depended on slavery and servitude
Slavery reshaped colonial society- because the human