New England and Chesapeake Region Evoloved into Two Very Different Colonies Dbq 1993

New England and the Chesapeake region evolved into two very different colonies, even though founded by the same country; England. Many of these differences having to do with social, economic, and geographic factors. New England had order in their colonies, but terrible crop conditions while the Chesapeake region was very disorganized but had the perfect crop climates. The religious spirit and close knit societies of New England set it apart from the Chesapeake bay regions ideas about government and reasons for the new world.

A major difference in the colonies are the types of people they brought over. The ship list of emigrants bound for New England shows how there was a variety of people. Men and women, children, old and young, couples and singles etc. and this led to a diversity throughout the colony to keep it strong (Doc B). The ship list of emigrants bound for Virginia shows that their citizens mainly consisted of men. There was few women and no children so the male to female ratio was poor. This led to an unorderly society having one woman to every four men (Doc C).

The Chesapeake region climate was much better for agriculture than New England’s so they started to expand. As they were expanding they took the Indians land and they didn’t like that so they retaliated by killing white men. Nathaniel Bacon