In the 1600s, many English people migrated to the New World. Some settled in what became known as New England and some in a region called the Chesapeake. Even though those regions were settled by the same kind of people, they developed into two distinct societies by 1700. New England became composed of many close and religious towns with large families. In the Chesapeake region ... societies is that the migrants that traveled to New England were Puritans. These Puritans organized the New England colonies in a way that was based on their religion. Puritans believed that church and government s...

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... the French were able to set up trading posts, such as that run by Jacques Cartier, and live in peace with the Native Americans, who they introduced many new technologies and tools to. The French government decided that Catholicism would be the official religion of the colonies and so they banned Protestants from the settlement. Other explorers began to move south. Sieur de La Salle ... took many settlers as for south as the Gulf of Mexico, all along the route claiming land for France. By the time he had completed his exploration, nearly the entire interior of the country had been claime...

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... did not like the Puritans, and were not accepting to their beliefs. They expelled people with different ideas from their colonies, such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. The different viewpoints of the two communities led to tensions and hatred. The Chesapeake and New England regions evolved into to distinct societies because of slavery, money, and religion. New Englanders were more concerned ... with pleasing God and showing others the "right" way of religion. The people of the Chesapeake ... region were interested in becoming wealthy through material possessions. The Chesapeake ...

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During the colonial period, many people moved from their homelands in England to embark on a journey to the New World. Some went for wealth, religion and/or freedom. Two of the main English regions were the New England and the Chesapeake, Virginia region in the New World. Although both came from the same place with almost the same backgrounds, the two groups diversified and changed into two different societies. The colonists that settled in New England had a distinctly different society than the Chesapeake region. The settlers in New England came in groups of families. As shown in document B, ...

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... settled in the Americas with the Native Americans. Religion makes its way all around the world to be one of the most important part of a country and the formation of that country. Both Spanish colonies and English colonies used religion to get to the New World and try to become something in the Americas. Both Colonies were able to change their lives and they did that with the role of ... religion. Spanish settlers became powerful in the Americas and were able to get the Native people to work ... for them and in return they taught them the proper religion. Meanwhile the English escaped ...

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... more land in the "New World." The three major powers, Spain, France and England all wanted something to do with this unused territory. While the Spanish were getting their western piece of land, and the French their northern and central, the English began to settle their colonies. Settling colonies in the northeaster coast of the country, their settlements began to split apart from ... each other. Important differences in social, political, and economical aspects of life led to major differences in their culture ... motivations for leaving England were not economical, they still had a ve...

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... along with them. In the English southern colonies, colonists first used indentured servants, who worked to pay off their dues for several years. The masters soon realized how weak and easily the servants died and if they survived, the ... another indentured servant. From 1607 to 1775, slavery had went through an tremendous growth. As the colonies began to grow economically and socially, the colonists began to realize the importance of having slaves, people who were their property ... colonies, a wide gap began to form in the South's social structure. At the top southern social structure...

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The people that settled in the New England and Chesapeake regions were of the same English decent, but by 1700, they had developed extremely different economies. The settlers in each colony had little or nothing to do with their neighboring colonies. The two regions had differences in community, society, and religion, among other things. In addition to that, the founders of each colony had ... mentioned in the History of Virginia, many of the colonists were seeking gold. (Doc F) Their government was not religion-based, and it was disliked by many. The migrants challenged authority and believ...

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... to the New World, Puritans found the experience they expected, but not as easily as they anticipated. In all, the tendency of English colonists to form like-minded colonies was crucial to the success of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. To the Puritans, the idea of the "City on a Hill " was ... word: "Say no more, the court know wherefore and is satisfied. " "(p.142). Roger William's idea of religious freedom was also a treat to the community. They Puritans had come to the New World to set up a colony where they could practice religion the way they wanted. William's idea of religious ... com...

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... way through Central America. The Spanish explored the New World in search of gold, glory, and god, they sent many different types of people to the new world, and they had an overall negative affect on the Indians. Spaniards were constantly in America spreading religion or seeking gold and glory. Spanish priests went into the New World on a missionary goal. In these missions the ... priests evangelized to the Natives. Here the Natives would learn of the catholic religion, the Spanish laws and lifestyles. The missionaries tried to tame the natives so that they could live in a village unde...

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... and the unique heritage of the United States of America was religious freedom. This is probably the main reason why people came to America. One group of people that came to America was the Separatists, who were also known as the Pilgrims. There were many problems in England concerning religion. ... The Separatists were being persecuted because they did not believe nor wish to be a part of the Anglican Church of England. This created a big debate on how to deal with this issue. The Pilgrims concluded that they needed to leave the Church and go to the ... . They did not want to rely on a...

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