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New England and Chesapeake

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Comparison New England and Chesapeake
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Although both New England and the Chesapeake were both settled by English settlers they were many differences- categorize the following into either New England or the Chesapeake

  • Political System- Representative Government House of Burgesses
  • Demographics- gender imbalance, primarily men migrated here for profit, high mortality rate
  • Demographics- skilled middle class families migrated to this region and life expectancies are long
  • Geography- rocky soil, cold winters, short growing season, harbors that are good for fishing and whaling
  • Motivation for settlement- Enslaved Africans and Indentured Servants were brought to work the land for profit of Wealthy land owners
  • Motivation for settlement- build a "city on a hill" as a Puritan utopia
  • Location- Maryland and Virginia (South)
  • Economic- small self-sufficient" farms and commercial fishing, lumber, and ship building
  • Political- Congregationalism church members had political power and Town meetings excercised power on a local level. Puritan religious hierarchy
  • Geography- warm climate, swampy, navigable rivers, fertile soil
  • Economic System- Tobacco plantations worked by indentured servants and slaves
  • Location- Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut
  • New England
  • Chesapake
My purpose is not to persuade children from their parents; men from their wives; nor servants from their masters; only, such as with free consent may be spared; But that [English] parish, or village, in city or country, that will but apparel their fatherless children, of thirteen or fourteen years of age, or young married people, that have small wealth to live on; here by their labor may live exceeding well; provided always that first there be sufficient power to command them...and sufficient masters (as carpenters, asons, fishers, fowlers, gardeners, husbandment, swyers, smiths, spinsters, tailors, weaves and suchlike) to take ten twelve, or twenty, or as is their occasion for apprentice. The masters by this may quickly grow rich; these [apprentices] may learn their trades themselves, to do the like; to a general and an incredible benefit for king, and country, master and servant.”
John Smith, English Adventurer A Description of New England 1616
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John Smith's pupose of "A Description of New England" (Virginia) 1616 is to

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Most of the first settlers that went to Jamestown with John Smith

“The Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness and truth, than formerly we have been acquainted with. We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when He shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, "may the Lord make it like that of New England." For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God's sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going
- 1630 PRIMARY SOURCE John Winthrop's A Model of Christian Charity- or City upon a Hill written on the Arabella en route to Massachusetts Bay Colony
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The primary motive for Puritans like John Wintrop to immigrate to New England was to

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All of the following are consequences of Winthrop’s vision for Massachusetts Bay EXCEPT

I conceive there lies a clear rule.. That the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have time wherein I must do it. If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? The power of the Holy Spirit dwelleth perfectly in every believer, and the inward revelations of her own spirit, and the conscious judgement of her own mind are of authority paramount to any word of God
  • - Anne Hutchinson 1630s
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The excerpts from Anne Hutchinson best represent which of the following developments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s?

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Anne Hutchinson