societies, especially the New England and Chesapeake regions. Socially, families and individuals from the colonies were different in number, beliefs, and social mobility. The economies of the colonies differed in their foundations and various industries. Concerning politics, each region had a their own form of self-government and extent of political authority. Although the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled by people of English origin, by 1700 the colonies developed to be uniquely diverse in
Sebastian Weber Mr. Voorhees - 8 AP United States History 5 September 2014 DBQ Between 1607 and 1700, New England and the Chesapeake created their colonies very differently economically because of their geographic circumstances, politically because of how they set up their government, and socially because of how they set up their social ladders. New England and the Chesapeake developed very different economies due to the very different geographic circumstances. New England had a shorter growing
DBQ: Colonial New England and Chesapeake Regions It is common knowledge among citizens of the United States that our country was first inhabited by Native Americans and later Europeans. More specifically, the English came to the New World throughout the 17th Century and settled along the eastern coast. The earliest English settlers established ground in Virginia in the Chesapeake region. Not too many years later, more people from England arrived in the Massachusetts Bay region and named that area