What people lived in the New England Colonies?
New England Colonies The people who lived there… http://staff.fcps.net/pnewton/newenglandppt.htm During the seventeenth century, the social and economic pressures within England that generated the Chesapeake colonies also spawned the colonization of a region to the north named New England. But the New English colonists differed markedly from their Chesapeake contemporaries. Where most Chesapeake settlers were poor and short-lived indentured servants, New England attracted primarily "middling sorts" who preserved their freedom because they could pay their own way across the Atlantic. And most of the New English espoused a more demanding faith than the Anglicanism practiced in the Chesapeake. Known as Puritans, they meant to purify the Protestant faith, in England if possible, in a New En-land if necessary. More… http://www.jcs-group.com/oldwest/america/england1.html The Puritans of New England http://www.shmoop.com/new-england-puritans-pilgrims/ http://www.sagehistory.net/colonial/topics/NewEngland.htm http://www.academicamerican.com/colonial/topics/puritannewengland.html
What did the new england colonies do for a living?
The New England Colonies were largely farming and fishing communities. The people made their own clothes and shoes. They grew much of their own food. Crops like corn and wheat grew in large numbers, and much was shipped to England. Foods that didn't grow in America were shipped from England. Boston was the major New England port. he northern colonies developed more diversified economies, relying less upon the export of staples. Northern frontier settlers engaged in the fur trade, but that trade diminished rapidly because of overhunting. Although some New England farmers exported grain and livestock, many could barely feed themselves and their families. New Englanders therefore turned to alternative occupations, trading with the West Indies and developing http://www.answers.com/topic/vigorous fishing, small manufacturing, and shipbuilding industries. Farmers in the Mid-Atlantic, in contrast, sent flour and grain (wheat, corn) to the West Indies in great quantities from the beginning of colonization, thereby encouraging the growth of Philadelphia and New York. Nonetheless, many of these farmers participated in grain commodity markets only in occasional years of high prices until the 1760s and 1770s, when wars and crop failures in Europe opened new markets in southern Europe for grain, enticing farmers to greater market production. Farm operators relied heavily upon their families for labor. While fathers and older sons cleared land and planted, cultivated, and harvested grain or other staples, mothers and older daughters operated the dairy and vegetable gardens. The greater the level of staple production, the higher the http://www.answers.com/topic/likelihood that farm operators had access to labor beyond the family. The great majority of farm families in New England owned few slaves and infrequently hired wage laborers, but wealthy men in the Mid-Atlantic colonies (including Quakers before the 1770s) owned slaves and indentured servants in some numbers. Although Chesapeake planters at first used English and Irish indentured servants, by the early eighteenth century a significant (and increasing) minority of southern tobacco planters and nearly all rice planters owned slaves.
How did the Puritans affect the development of the New England Colonies?
I can just tell you, and it's100% historically accurate. Puritans were very intolerant to other religions. So when they established the Mass. Bay Colony in 1629, it was a strictly religious commonwealth. Only the converted Puritans (there dubbed Congregationalists) had any rights. They were called "visible saints" and the males were able to vote and even hold public discussions and debates. HOWEVER, other religious groups such as the Quakers were harshly persecuted with fines, floggings, and even in some cases DEATH! So the religious dissenters fled the colony; or were exiled. Such radical non-Puritan official, Roger Williams, was banished, and created the colony of Rhode Island, which became the most democratic and independent New England colony where the seeds of democracy were planted. As for the liberal-minded Quakers, William Penn created the Pennsylvania colony as their asylum. However, it sheltered not only the Quakers, but everyone, of any religion! Almost everyone had rights, except Jews Catholics could not vote because of London's decision. But STILL it was the most democratic middle colony, and it inspired the democratic policies in other middle colonies such as Delaware, NJ, (both where populated by Quakers) and NY!
Can anyone please tell me how one of the colonies was founded?
Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in America, was founded after Roanke went missing. England heard the Spanish were getting gold down in America and wanted some too. Though they never found and real gold, the settlers soon discovered that tobaco grew well here. Soon, more settlements came over to America to grow tobaco.
New england/chesapeake colonies?
They both came from different roots. Virginia was initially a commercial venture. New England's first settlers were people fleeing religious persecution. They had different economies too. The Chesapeake region had a primarily agricultural economy where they grew cash crops, similar to the Caribbean, for profit. The chief crop was tobacco. In New England, they had less commercial agriculture. Most of the agriculture there was for subsistence. The big industries there in the early years were things like woodcutting and shipbuilding. There are other differences you could write about too. New England had many towns while there was much less urban development at this time in the South. Look stuff up using google. If required, go get some books from the library. This doesn't sound like a difficult assignment. Good luck.
New England Vs. Chesapeake Colonies?
i had this esay last week in ap us history let me see if i can find my notes Virginia Massachusetts -Jamestown; John Smith -escape England prosecution -Puritan separatists -went for the money; troubles with Indians -founded= 1607 -Religion= Anglican -Government= Royal -Economy/Income= Tobacco (slaves) -headright-when company offered 50 acres of land to anyone who could pay their way to America AND 50 for every extra person(head) they broughtHouse Of Burgesses-first governing body in the English colonies; landowners elected officials; 1619 -colony nearly collapsed several times -disease and hunger were part of the problem -John Smith(leader) used military discipline -colonists often raided Indian villages -tensions eased for a while when John ROLFE married Pocahontas -north of Plymouth; led by John Winthrop -look at city on a Hill; role model -not separatists, but Puritans -went for peace; had some troubles with Indians -founded= 1630 -Religion= Puritan -Government= Corporate -Economy/Income= Farming, fishing, shipbuilding -General Court-2 house government; landowners & church officials elected lower house(18) called assistants; had an elected governor; 1634-Pequot War-1637; brief, tragic(basically); colonist migrated to Connecticut, Pequot already had problems, saw Mass. Colonists as allies of Dutch, war started; Pequot, recovering from smallpox, lost; English killed 300-700 Pequot Indians -not quite sure what happens after, but it says they were absorbed into Connecticut
What were the jobs of people in the New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies?
New England's geography and climate was not well-suited to farming and growing crops; the soil was rocky and the weather was often cold. Therefore, the New Englanders had to find another way to make their living. It turns out that the New England land, however, rocky, had an unbelievable amount of trees, all for their own use! But trees had to be cut down in order for the people to make use of its wood, so people were soon hired as loggers and the logging business boomed. What then would you do with the wood? Well, you could build ships with them, for one thing, so the shipbuilding business was born and it skyrocketed. What could you do with ships? You could fish! There were many, many schools of fish, clams, lobsters, crabs, and more swimming in the ocean. So the fishing business boomed. Now the Middle Colonies had both great land and great weather suited for farming, especially growing wheat; the soil was very fertile and the weather was warm. The Middle Colonies weren't called the Breadbasket Colonies for nothing. The soil was not only rich for farming, but for mining metals. A particular area, which is now known as the Pittsburgh (you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers?), was very rich in iron ore. The Middle Colonies also had much livestock, and livestock meant that milk, butter, meat, and more could be exported around the globe. In the South, the geography and climate was especially suited for growing certain cash crops; the land was fertile and the weather was warm all year round. Some cash crops grown were cotton, indigo, tobacco, and rice.
Differences between the New England, middle n southern colonies....????
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