Dbq On Comparing Chesapeake And New England Bay Colonies
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Dbq On Comparing Chesapeake And New England Bay Colonies
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Curiosity and bravery led the English to discover the nations of America.
These strong willed Europeans, determined to find to a new world, set out with
high hopes and ambitions. Settling a variety of colonies along the coast of North
America, the English were among the first true pioneers. After several
expeditions and ships loads of emigrants, the English had a divergence of
reasons for departing Europe for America. The settlers of the Chesapeake and
New England colonies, were foreigners to the land, established two exceptional
but contrary societies due to the diversity of English citizens. Chesapeake and
New England colonies, although from the same English background, developed
distinctions from the very start of the sixteenth century; their reasons for fleeing
Europe, political standards, family life, religions and use of land.
With King James I offering a charter for the Virginia Company of London,
a joint stock company, to prompt a settlement in the New World, profit filled
English men couldnt refuse this gracious proposal. A promise of golden lands
and a new passage route through America to the West Indies, the hearty men
embarked on a journey which to their eyes seemed to be through the vast
unknown. Arriving on the shores of Chesapeake Bay in 1606, soon they were
attacked by Indians. Finally having to settle on the James River (named in honor
of their King) the Virginia Company was forced to make their home within a
mosquito infested and unhealthily region. Beginning their arduous search from
the onset, the stubborn men searched for gold day and night through starvation,
malnutrition, and disease. According to Captain John Smith these gold seekers
were all men in hope of repayment for commencing on the journey. He described
the scene as diligent men digging, washing, refining, and loading gold all in
silence. Living from hand to mouth induced the gold miners to only be able to
provided selves with supplies for the following year. The profit filled English men
of the Virginia Company voyaged to America with their hearts in hope for gold
and their minds set on discovering this precious metal and nothing else.
Meanwhile back in England, around the 1530s King Henry VIII had broken ties
with the Roman Catholic Church and was anointing himself the Head of the
Church of England. Soon in 1603 King James I become the head of the Church
of England causing the Puritans to oppose him as...
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