New England And Chesapeake Bay Settling
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The regions of New England and the Chesapeake Bay were both settled by people of English origin. The initial ambition of these people was the same; the dreams of a new life in a new world, but these dreams evolved into two very different societies. By 1700, this difference in development of these two colonies occurred because of very separate beliefs and values in social structure, religion and their views on a �utopia’. We can see these differences very clearly in the two colonies in New England and in Chesapeake.
In the colony of Virginia, we see a very individualistic environment. Many of the people coming to Virginia from England were mostly single men and some indentured servants (Document C), all looking for a new, better life full of chances and success. Many of these men were looking for self-gain in Virginia, searching for land and crops for their individual benefit. With all this single man success, Virginia wasn’t so concerned with community. Most had no care as to the equality of others, their economic standing/human conditions, and some were even somewhat abusive to the lower classes (Document F). Lower classes were not and would never be equal to that of the nobility and higher classes, even though the amount of single lower class men greatly outnumbered the rest (Document G). Though, lower classes were given the opportunity to work their way up the social ladder in the beginning of the Virginia colony. Indentured servants were given the chance to become free and live as a white man, being given land and their freedom. Though, this soon ended by the time of Bacon’s rebellion, where officials realized that indentured servants freedom was a major threat to their government. It was here when slavery became the next best thing. The idea of an unlimited amount of labor became so appealing that by 1700, slavery was set in place, and indentured servitude was gone. The development in Virginia from the time of immigration to 1700 was the effect of fear and lack of communication among the individuals in the colony.