Compare And Contrast Chesapeake And New England

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The Chesapeake and the New Englanders are very different but compare on a woman's role in society. For example, the Chesapeake and New England women were expected childbearing, even if the Chesapeake had a high sex ratio while in New England it was more traditional for the sex ratio to be balanced women were expected to get pregnant left and right. Women in both colonies were also married very young, the average women married in Europe was twenty to twenty one years old and in Chesapeake the average bride was three to four years younger. In addition, women were not very much likely to have control in their household, by the mid-eighteenth century the families were becoming more dominated by the male head; also in New England the men exercised