... their circumstances. Numerous people hoped that by leaving England they could accomplish this. The English migrants who were trying to pursue a better way of life established the Chesapeake colonies and the New England colonies in North America, but the colonies however differed in the aspects of developing economics, religious beliefs, and family life. The Chesapeake's economy was based on farming. By the 1630s, tobacco ... much impact on the settlers or the early development of its colonies. Chesapeake congregations suffered in the absence of a sufficient amount of ordained clergymen. N...

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... . The three most important themes of English colonization of America were religion, economics, and government. The most important reasons for colonization were to seek refuge, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. To a lesser degree, the colonists sought to establish a stable and progressive government. Many colonies were founded for religious purposes. While religion was involved with all of the colonies, Massachusetts, New Haven, Maryland, and Pennsylvania were established exclusively for religious ... purposes. Massachusetts's inhabitants were Puritans who believed in predestin...

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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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... is easy to observe that most people came in large families, and large families support the community atmosphere. There were many children among the emigrants, and those children were taught religion from their early childhood, and therefore grew up loyal Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by the people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct ... easily controlled. The independence of the pioneers of Virginia can be seen in Bacon's Manifesto. These people were not afraid to challenge authority and believed that they had t...

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... Puritanism is necessary in order to grasp the reason why the Puritans austerely adhered to the cultural values they held in such high regard. The Puritans were English Protestants who thought that the religious, moral, and societal reforms of the Church of England were not satisfactory. The Puritans believed an excessive extent of power rested with the priests, bishops ... the King of England was head of both the church and state, the Puritans' opposition to religious authority meant that they also defied the civil authority of the state. Consequently, the Puritans ultimately escaped pe...

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... settlers which came to the New World. With their goal of economically prospering, religion did not have that striking appeal, where as others found it to be one of the most important aspects of life. These English settlers had planned to stay for a short period of time, only coming ... upon as necessary to have families travel to North America, if their proposal was to return to England shortly. With the discovery of new land and profitable cash crops, wealth was at the palm of their hands. The news of tobacco being a successful cash crop in 1617 led to the ... increase the production of...

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... Hartford in 1636. Both men were looked down on by the Puritan society, The Puritans wanted to reform and purify traditional Catholicism. Thus, they turned away from and punished tolerant ideas of religious liberty. Quakers were nearly completely opposite of the Puritans. In 1676 the English Quakers bought proprietary rights to a western part of New Jersey. They developed ith into a haven for the ... Society of Friends, a group that the Puritans rejected. The Quakers were devoted to religious toleration and pacifism. William Penn, an English Quaker, had been imprisoned four times for his...

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... change that occurred in the colonies was the extension of British ideals far beyond the practice in England itself. Changes in religion, economics, politics, and social structure illustrated this Americanization of the transplanted Europeans. By 1763, although some colonies still maintained established churches, other colonies had accomplished a virtual revolution for religious toleration and separation of church and state. In similar economic revolution, the colonies outgrew their mercantile relationship ... with the mother country and developed an expanding capitalist system of their ...

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... the eastern seaboard during the 17th century had English origin, each colony had its differences. The colonies of Chesapeake and Plymouth are two perfect examples. Each of the colonies had distinctive differences in their religion, government and economy. The Puritans were very devoted to their religion, but Chesapeake was very lenient and laid back. These difference are very evident by what group of people ... founded the colony, views of worship, daily life, and the people they dealt ... a male who owned land. Although, in the Chesapeake colony gave the men to defend and govern their ...

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The Literature of Colonial America 1620-1776 The Religious Background The early religion of the colonies was one based primarily on Puritan dogma. The Puritans were a fundamentalist group who felt that the church had become corrupt and that it was the scriptures not the trappings that were important to the religion. Finding no tolerance for their views in Europe they chose to risk their fates ... in the colonies where they could institute the biblical paradise that they believed in so strongly. Among these early ... was not complete peace though. There were skirmishes over land by Connecticu...

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... the Stuart Restoration. Puritanism reached North America with the English settlers who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. It remained the dominant religious force in New England throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. This was one of the first forms of expansionism in the US, it was an expansion of religion. Another major impact of expansionism in the US was ... the 18th century. Which was again an expansion of religion in the US, it was a general revival of evangelical religion in the American colonies, which reached its peak in the early 1740s. Local revivals had occurred previously, ins...

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... reading. One of the biggest fears they had when they came to the New World was the fear that they would completely lose touch with English culture, and they tried to avoid this by keeping up with English literature as much as they possibly could. Despite the distance, they actually managed to keep getting supplies of books from England - the Winthrop expedition, that ... all enjoyed reading as a form of entertainment. As you can probably imagine, the Bible always remained a favorite book in Puritan colonies, and they preferred the Geneva Bible of 1560 to any other published version, bec...

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... reading. One of the biggest fears they had when they came to the New World was the fear that they would completely lose touch with English culture, and they tried to avoid this by keeping up with English literature as much as they possibly could. Despite the distance, they actually managed to keep getting supplies of books from England - the Winthrop expedition, that ... all enjoyed reading as a form of entertainment. As you can probably imagine, the Bible always remained a favorite book in Puritan colonies, and they preferred the Geneva Bible of 1560 to any other published version, bec...

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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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... for whatever reasons these Europeans immigrated to America, they each contributed to the social development of each of the colonies that they settled in. For example, when the Quakers began to settle in Pennsylvania, they had hoped to build upon their young and growing lifestyle. In immigrating to the New World, they were able to live by the rules of their belief ... they shared the land with, we can deduce that their social structure was open-minded, and possessed tolerance for individual beliefs and thoughts. Although the Quakers entrance and settlement in the New World was smooth and...

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