The Chesapeake and New England colonies differ in the structure and method of building an economy, although they appeared at about the same time connected by similar circumstances. The New England colonies, located in North America, were much more religiously focused than the merchants from the Chesapeake Bay, who settled closer to the Eastern shore of America. Despite the difference in culture and outlook, the English colonies synchronized with each other and cooperated.
The main mode of existence in which the settlers of the colonies lived in Chesapeake Bay was agricultural production. The tasks of these colonies were for the most part commercially oriented, which shaped the nature of their activities. In the colonies located in the territories of Virginia and Maryland, English migrants sowed fields with tobacco and cultivated it. This commercial production was a way for English men to find a better life through profit. The settlers in the Chesapeake were on the verge of extinction due to conflicts with the local diasporas and the inability to grow and produce food (Threlfall, 2019). As a result of the ongoing wars, the English settlers expanded their influence and began to grow tobacco, a culture picked up from Native Americans. They were not particularly focused on the religious aspect of life and were looking for ways to make a profit.
Communities in the New England colonies functioned according to completely different criteria. The settlers there lived in different conditions with a colder climate and rocky ground. The New England colonialists fled from persecution for disobeying the official church in England, which was reproached for venality and close ties with the state (Corbett, 2022). Belonging to the Puritan offshoot of Christianity, the followers of the reformists sought in their way to create a way of life that was closest to God, reproducing the concept of the promised land. Celebrations were to be removed from their lives and a system of labor and discipline was built.
To conclude, despite their different worldviews and practical interests, the settlers of these two types of colonies built a new country in close cooperation. A strong economy and production lined up on the shores of Massachusetts, associated in particular with the transportation of tobacco from the Chesapeake colonies. Thus, the sense of common cause and the principle of survival allowed the colonies to transcend contradictions.
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Corbett, P. S. (2022). U.S. history. OpenStax. Web.
Threlfall, J. (2019). Fifty great migration colonists to New England and their origins. Heritage Books