Analyze the Similarities and Differences Between the New England Colonies and the Chesapeake Colonies to 1750Essay Preview: Analyze the Similarities and Differences Between the New England Colonies and the Chesapeake Colonies to 1750Report this essayDBQ: Analyze the similarities and differences between the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies to 1750.In spite of both colonies being settled by men, women, and children of English ancestry by the 1700s both regions evolved into two very distinct societies. The Chesapeake colonies were a far cry from the New England colonies. The Chesapeake colonies were founded on the idea of making a profit while New England colonies were established on the idea of religious refuge. Additionally, the Chesapeake colonies were settled by individual men while the New England colony were settled by families which aided in the growth of this colony. Thus the development of two separate societies occurred by reason of disputes with the Native Americans, the economy, and religion.
While the colonies in the New England and Chesapeake region had their differences, there were similarities between the two. One is that much like early colonies at the time, both had conflicts with the Native Americans (Doc 3). The reasons for conflict, however, were different. For the colonists in the Chesapeake area, tensions were already high when both sides, thought that they were better than the other side. Events took a turn for the worse, due to food supply shortages. Colonists began to raid Native American food supplies, which constituted a response from Chief Powhatan in the form of a counterattack. The crux of the conflict seemed to rise from many sources, but it was the view of land ownership that seemed incite and continuing conflicts, the Indians believing the land was owned by a tribe, the English viewing ownership on an individual basis. In contrast, the New England and Native American conflict stemmed from the following basic premise: the ever-changing control of the fur and wampum trade. Although the actual conflict didn’t start until key traders were murdered, the seeds of conflict had already existed in the area (Doc 4).
The economies of these two regions also aided in the enlargement of two separate societies. The Chesapeake Bay colonies sole purpose was money. The original settlers were sent by the crown in order to make a profit. Chesapeake Bay’s whole economic nourishment was Tobacco. Tobacco was brought by John Rolfe who snuck in tobacco seeds from the Spanish. Other than tobacco Chesapeake Bay contained many plantations and made their profits from cotton as well. Due to having many plantations, the colonists needed a form of labor, which ended up being called indentured servitude. Indentured servitude was a system in which men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter. While the form of labor was positive for
n, it turned out that indentured servitude had an even more negative effect on the people of the region than the original settlers of Colonial Texas. When their families joined the Confederacy, a large number of the colonists started to lose their jobs and wages. They found it difficult to go back to work. But when they were finished and returned home, they were given an opportunity to take full advantage of working conditions and wages. Thus they were the first to establish their own economy. They were also the first to establish government.
While many of these people left the colony in 1776 and returned to the United States during the war, one of the last to leave was the American Congress. Congress had only 13 members, but they did, through the efforts of their members, control the legislature in 1790. Congress did that by passing a law creating the American Cabinet (a committee called the Union Cabinet of 1790) and establishing a Council of Ministers, which was called the first United States Congress. It is not generally known what was the basis of that Council, but it was responsible for various activities, mostly agricultural, including the cultivation of tobacco to produce tobacco products and to make tobacco legal. Congress also passed the War of 1812, which authorized the first military action by the Confederacy, the first military withdrawal over slavery, and later the Civil War. The War of 1812 was fought with a combined force of more than 1,500 soldiers, 1,750 women, 500 children and 20,000 soldiers, nearly all of whom were killed or captured. While Confederates claimed an unwavering commitment to justice and equality throughout the war, President Grant refused to end slavery and to impose laws which would end it.
In 1798, the United States signed an agreement with Mexico to join the Confederacy, which was to have two members elected to the United States Congress and three to the U.S. Senate and two to the U.S. House of Representatives. The first such vote was at the State Capitol, Washington, D.C., when House members Richard M. Lee and Samuel B. Adams were sworn in on January 15, 1799. President Grant and Senator Lee both had their jobs filled, but they lost their Senate seat. The other four nominees that were elected during the first year of the republic were Senator Thomas Lee at the State Department, Congressman Charles L. Johnson at the State Department and Representative James A. Smith at the Department of Treasury. While there was also some controversy as to who should serve as the United States Senator, there was a consensus favoring that John D. Lee became the first Senator to be confirmed for three terms.
At the beginning of the next year, after the ratification of the first Constitution, the Federalist Papers were first read. The Constitution that had granted the Confederate states a power to decide their own issues and decide their own legislative districts was then passed by Congress, making the South a constitutional republic under the North’s constitution. The North then attempted to use that power to enforce its own laws as well as defend itself against the Confederacy. A large majority opposed the North’s attempts and were eventually elected during the early part of the Civil War, not to acknowledge their right of self-government and national liberation in that regard, but to maintain control over the local courts and courts of trial.
During the war, while most of the