New England Colonies Dbq Analysis

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Colonies of New England and of the Chesapeake region were founded in the early to late 17th century. As time passes, many different things occur. These two regions were started by the English, but as the years passed, they began to become different from one another. The people from New England and from the Chesapeake region lived distinctly because they all had contrasting motivations and political beliefs, the patterns of immigration were not alike, and the societies and economies were also contrastive. These people did not feel motivated by the others’ motivations and they also did not have their beliefs in politics. The New England region was a democratic spot as they had a stable and well-organized town with land proportions for each numbered family (Doc D). They seemed to want to have a “perfect” community without anything falling out of place. The Chesapeake region was aristocratic. There were certain political figures with the authority over the wealth and the …show more content…
The New Englanders had an egalitarian view of their community. They were harmonic and believed that the poor and the rich were to be treated equally and to live near one another (Doc D). Those in the Chesapeake region cared so much for wealth that they did not have any concern for the people around them. In “History of Virginia,” John Smith speaks about the death of Captain Kendall, which was not cared for and was a horrifying (Doc F). It is terribly sad that people were this disdainful in the Chesapeake region. Virginia’s homes were very scattered and the people were isolated from one another because the land had many rivers that separated everyone from one another (Doc G). Virginians seemed to not care about whether they had neighbors or they did not. The contrasting economies and societies were also major keys in the different developments of the