Chesapeake New England vs. Middle Colonies Essay

Taylor Ranney … AP U.S. History August 27, 2015 Connecting Facts 1. European vs. Native concepts of land ownership: Europeans believed that land should be privately possessed while Native Americans believed land was invested with sacred qualities and should be held common. The two groups differed in opinion because Europeans thought soil was a resource for human exploitation and benefit. They bought and sold land for crop production and profit. Fences were even used to separate lands of neighbors

Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude Sandra McIntire HIS110 April 27, 2015 Jelena Popov Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude Slavery. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, it is the condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, and was deprived of the rights held by free people. Slavery was viewed as a way that undeveloped people, such as Black African men and women, could receive the physical and moral discipline and training necessary to attain

Spanish vs New England Colonies Starting in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, a Spanish explorer, sailed the ocean blue and discovered the New World began this journey for the Spanish and New England colonies. A settlement had begun to develop as more expeditions sailed for the New World. The Spanish drive for mercantilism and the desire for the expansion of the joint-stock companies set them apart from New England. The English wanted religious persecution from Britain and the Anglican Church. The

Chapter 4 Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society 1720-1765 Freehold Society in New England Puritans created a yeomen society of independent farm families who owned their land as freeholders- without feudal dues or leases by 1750, rapidly increasing population outstripped the supply of easily farmed land, challenging the freehold ideal. A. Farm Families: Women's Place Men were head of the household no time for anything. They did many labors by 1750, family sizes decreased due

Started England on its way to become master of the world. 28. Why England began Colonizing - England had a surplus population, with landloards enclosing croplands for sheep grazing, forcing many small farmers to the street, economic depression also hit, and a mobile populat supurred up, Primogeniture

Rebellion and Salem Witch Trials both reflect economic tensions but the Stono Rebellion was due to a slave based economy while economic disparity played role in the Salem Witch trials. The Southern colonies` main motive for settlement was profits from derived from plantations; tobacco in the Chesapeake and Carolinas plus rice and indigo in S. Carolina. After Bacon`s Rebellion plantation owners switched over to African slaves because they required less maintenance, work time wasn’t limited to contracts