Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh’s Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland, provides an in-depth study of the plantation established by Robert Cole, his family as well as his servants in seventeenth century Maryland. Cole and his family were English Catholics that had relocated from England to the New World because of the system of agriculture the Chesapeake was capable of producing. The Cole plantation account provides readers with an understanding of what was produced on the plantation, what was sold, and what was purchased. Cole’s life in Maryland was cut short, as was the life of many individuals who risked the harsh Chesapeake conditions to attempt at achieving economic success. We are able…
Chesapeake Colonies Colonies do not exist in present day America, however, they used to. In the very beginning of what is now known as the United States of America, colonies were one of the first settlements to be established, other than the ones established by the Native Americans. More specifically, the Chesapeake Colonies, which consists of the Virginia Colony and the Maryland Colony, were one of the early settlements created in America. In fact, the first establishment in America was the Jamestown settlement which was located in Virginia. Furthermore, many people wonder how it all started, and the answer to that question is that it all started with a petition.…
The climate and geography in this region was very different than the other two regions. The climate has cold, snowy winters and hot summers. It was a short growing season. There were rocky coastlines along the Atlantic and harbors. One of the harbors in the New England colonies was the Boston harbor, also known as the New England Harbor, and this was the location where all the tea was dumped for the tea act.…
New England and Chesapeake Families Compared The purpose of this report is to compare the family life of early American colonists. This research will lead to discovery of resources and records available, how those records can be used to yield evidence and a general understanding of the Colonial American family. 1. The Individuals…
The new towns had legal chartering by the colonial authorities and land was distributed to healthy minded town fathers or "proprietors. " The New Englanders were not as obsessed with money and profits as the Chesapeake settlers. The Chesapeake region was focused on profits and making money. Some of these settlers went even further to make a profit by picking to plant their tobacco crops before they planted their main food resource, corn.…
Contributing to existing scholarship does not always mean forging a new or innovative methodology. Sometimes a book can be a worthwhile read and follow the structure of earlier works. It is in this manner that readers will most appreciate Timothy Silver’s A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, colonists, and slaves in South Atlantic forests. The author quickly acknowledges his appreciation for two earlier works in environmental history that inspired this book, Alfred W. Crosby Jr.’s…
3. What was the role of the colonies in the British mercantilist system? In the early 1600’s Great Britain was looking for ways to expand its commercial empire. King James I funded an expedition to the New World and founded the first British colony in North America along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.…
Beginning in the early 17th Century, English settlers scattered themselves along the eastern coast forming some of the first clearly defined regions of the United States. While both the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies had deep-seated aversion for the natives, they differed in their religious homogeneity and economic policies. The New England colonies were strictly Puritan whereas the Chesapeake colonies followed no universal religion; also, while the New England colonies relied on fishing, shipbuilding, and farming, the Chesapeake colonies relied on their strong tobacco based economy. Although both regions were eventually conquered by the British and forced to merge as one nation, the New England colonies and the Chesapeake…
In the 1700’s, agriculture was expanding towards the west coast of America, people from the Old World continued to migrate to the English colonies in the New World, and there was a high birth rate- all of those listed reasons caused a social and economic change of the 18th century colonies. Diversity became very popular during the 18th century, which was a very big change considering the fact that “in 1700, the colonies were essentially English outposts” (Foner, 112). A large percent of the diverse newcomers came as bound laborers, and their participation led to economic success. The attraction of settlers (especially Germans), as well as the use of British convicts, not only made the labor force in the Chesapeake stronger; it made the religion…
During 1700s America, most colonists lived in rural farming villages on their own property. In the North, there was a focus on family farms whereas in the south, there were many large plantations with less of a focus on the family aspect and a much heavier use of slavery. The middle colonies, like Virginia for example, were sort of a middle ground where these two traditions mixed and new ones were introduced. During this time period, it is fascinating to contrast these regions. Without carefully examining similarities, like the way they are run governmentally, and the differences, like geography, it would be nearly impossible to understand the lives that these colonists led.…
Also, both colonies developed different factors that became crucial to each society. The Chesapeake and New England colonies share many similarities and differences in terms of economic organization, women’s issues, and slavery. The economies in the Chesapeake and…
From the mid-17th century through the mid-18th century, British North America consisted of a number of today’s U.S. states; some of which were New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, New Hampshire, Maryland, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina. During these two time frames, there were some principle events that occurred. Following those events contributed to the diversity of the different ethnic groups that lived in British North America. Some of those ethnic groups were the English, Dutch, Scots-Irish, Germans, Africans, and Native Americans. Each ethnic group had a different lifestyle due to their location, main priorities in life, and the influential events and developments that took place during that time.…
Overall, New England and the Chesapeake Bay areas had many contrasting qualities including their religion, population, and economies. The key reason that these two regions…
By the 1700s, the New England and the Chesapeake regions developed into two different colonies due to each colony’s reason for settlement, consisting of religious and economic reasons, their personal beliefs, and their growth in their society. While the settlers of New England immigrated to the Americas to escape religious persecution, the settlers of the Chesapeake region immigrated for more economic reasons—the search of gold. Each colony’s way of life contrasted from one another in the way they lived in their societal systems. The impacts of these differences evolved the colonies uniquely. Documents A and D reveal the religious motivations behind the New England settlers’ settlements.…
When one considers historical development from 1607-1865 in what eventually would become the United States of America, one can consider that a shipping company was being developed. England equates to the owner of the shipping company. Colonial officials parallel the captains of the ships in the company. The resources that the captains provide and sell will represent the economy. This model will take on the eastern seaboard.…