Colonial Differences And Similarities Between Virginia And Massachusetts

New England didn’t want to share the land with the natives, so they pushed them out. During King Philip’s war the English settlers defeated the natives. This completely wiped out the native population. The Chesapeake on the other hand didn’t want to cause any harm to the natives. The Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, talks about sharing the land with the natives and that they are in no position to start a war “Doc 6”. Nathaniel Bacon didn’t agree with Berkeley, he believed the Indians were robbers and thieves “Docs 7”. Bacon began a rebellion against Berkeley, he formed a raiding party which attacked several Native villages similar to how the English settlers had dealt with the Indians. Similar to the relationships with the natives, the population of these colonial societies differed in some

America’s first permanent English colony was Jamestown colony in May 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts in December 1620. The colonies of Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay were very different by successes and failures. There were many differences as well as similarities between these two colonies. However, each colony was looking for something better for their colony. These colonies had challenges to establish in the New World.

Jamestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had many similarities and differences. Many of these differences were due to their physical location and climatic conditions. The success of both colonies can be contributed to strong leadership and the characteristics of the personalities of the settlers that inhabited each settlement. Many of the early problems in both settlements can be contributed to a lack of knowledge on the parts of the settlers along with attacks from neighboring Native American tribes.

"Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two different societies, why did this difference in development occur?"

In the 15th century, European nations began to explore beyond the limits of Europe and the Mediterranean and England would fail to establish a permanent colony in the 1580's when the settlers on Roanoke island mysteriously disappeared. Almost two decades later after observing the success of other nations, they would make a second and third attempt. As a result, the iconic colonies of Virginia and Massachusetts would be born. Although the dates of the foundations of the colonies are in proximity, the colonies of Virginia and Massachusetts have drastically different political and economic systems because of the reasoning behind their founding, their means of gaining financial stability, and their characteristics of their residents.

When the first American settlement on Roanoke Island was established in 1585 it’s primary force, Sir Walter Raleigh, had no idea that this “New World” would evolve into one of the most powerful voices in the modern world. But before it developed it would have to shaped by it’s founders from the Western world. Two of the largest voices in America’s early development are John Smith, who with a group of English merchants, hoped to get rich in this new land, and William Bradford, a puritan farmer who was one of the most influential men involved with the Mayflower compact. In their two pieces they both convey America as a place to escape but

The colonists set up a colony at Jamestown to defend themselves against the Indians, and eventually Powhatan’s people came forward to open the trade of corn with the colonists. This corn eventually kept the colonist alive until another ship of more people and supplies came in. This however, did not prepare the colonists for the winter of 1609-1610, or “the starving time”, when only 60 of the original

During the time of 1763-1775, one of the occurrences that happened to affect the colonists’ perception of the British was the French and Indian War. The war itself was not the main reason the colonists’ had trouble with the British, but the time after the war was the actual cause of eventual trouble. During the war, the British fought with France around the Ohio valley for the control of land. The Ohio valley was very important to both of the empires, because of the land value and the strategic location it held in the years to come. Both had their struggles especially with the Native Americans that called this area their home. Most of the Native Americans sided with either the British or the French because they thought that if they had sided with

Beginning in the Sixteenth Century, Europeans sought to escape religious and class persecution by engaging on a journey to the New World. However, they were unaware that this “New World” was already inhabited by many groups of Native Americans, who had been established on the continent for thousands of years. At first, the two ethnic groups lived in relative peace. The colonists of Jamestown survived due to Powhatan’s tribe teaching them how to cultivate the land. However, things took a twisted turn as the colonists grew greedy. Due to cultural differences, there was stark tension between the Indian groups and European settlers in New England prior to 1750, which tremendously influenced early political means, social life, and the economy.

Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland were settled in the early 17th century. It was a difficult life for the first colonist; they had limited labor and were constantly raided by Native Americans. Colonist tried to use the Native Americans as a source of slavery. Most of the colonist’s farms were by forest areas so Native Americans would just leave in to the woods. Colonists were afraid of pressuring them because they feared getting ambushed by gangs of Native Americans.

When the first European colonists arrived in 1620 on land in the New World, a disaster was forming. Arriving in what is known today as Massachusetts on The Mayflower, the settlers didn’t have enough experience surviving cold, harsh winters causing almost half of the settlers to die that had arrived on The Mayflower. This had changed in 1621 with the help of the Native people. The American Indians had started teaching the English people how to do many things including harvesting and growing crops. This help from the Native’s had led to the first Thanksgiving between the two groups. These two societies, however, didn’t remain friends. The English settlers had kicked off the American Indians of their own land and tried to make them convert to Christianity. The English settlers had also brought diseases from Europe causing many Indians to get very sick and even some die.

Coming to America, many different groups of people had a hard time migrating here and trying to survive. Although many came well equipped for the hard journey, being new to the land made it harder for them to build colonies and thrive. This is because they came across many unexpected hardships that they were not prepared for mentally and physically. In this essay, I will talk about two different groups that migrated to America and how they adjusted to the new land and the new way of life. The colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation both had many similarities and a few differences when they came to America in the journey to build more and more colonies.

Near the beginning of the seventeenth century, foreign countries, like England, France, and Sprain, were in a race to colonize in the New World. England began to take over the eastern portion of the New World and formalize their colonies. The 13 original colonies settled by the English were further broken down into three sections known as The New England Colonies, The Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. Maryland and Virginia were two colonies that were titled The Chesapeake Colonies, which were different to The New England Colonies, yet similar in various ways. Both The New England Colonies and The Chesapeake Colonies were alike in that they were both settled by the English, and they both ran into conflicts with Native Americans in

As England started to take enthusiasm toward the "New World", colonization by Englishmen started to spread definitely in the 1600's. English provinces occurred on the eastern bank of the United States. Two early settlements created were in the New England and Chesapeake area. Albeit both were settled to a great extent by individuals of English starting point, by 1700 these two locales had advanced into two different social orders, because of reasons including the purposes behind settlement, topographical contrasts prompting distinctive matters in profit making, religion and legislative issues. The settlement of the New England district was carried out by individuals, basically families, getting away religious mistreatment in England, and

One similarity between the British colonies in the Chesapeake region and the British colonies in New England in the period from 1607 to 1754 is their issues and confrontations with the Natives. In the city of Jamestown, where many settlers first settled, there was a group Natives called the Powhatans. The Powhatans chieftain had kidnapped the settler’s leader, John Smith, and would have killed him if not for the chiefs’ daughter, Pocahontas, stepping between Smith and the war clubs. This put Pocahontas in the middle of the Natives and colonists. In 1610 many colonists were prepared to call quits and go home, they were met by Lord De La Warr and a relief party. Lord De La Warr ordered everyone back to Jamestown and took military action against