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What was the motivation for the Chesapeake colonies?
Lord Baltimore planned for Maryland to serve as a haven for English Catholics who suffered political and religious discrimination in England, but few Catholics actually settled in the colony. Protestants were attracted by the inexpensive land that Baltimore offered to help him pay his debts.
How were the motivations of the Chesapeake and New England settlers different?
B-1: The response provides a difference, that colonists in New England were “escaping persecution from the Church of England,” while colonists in the Chesapeake wanted “land opportunities.”
What was the economy of the Chesapeake colonies?
Economics in the colonies: Both the Chesapeake and Southern colonies had rich soil and temperate climates which made large-scale plantation farming possible. Both regions had an agriculture-based economy in which cash crops like tobacco, indigo, and cotton were cultivated for trade.
What were the similarities between the Chesapeake and New England colonies?
One similarity was the jobs. The main jobs of the people in the New England region included manufacturing, fishing, lumbering, and shipping. There also was some farming in the New England colonies. In the Chesapeake colonies closer to New England there was more manufacturing and trade.
What did the Chesapeake and New England have in common?
In both the New England and Chesapeake regions, English colonists established settler colonies based on agriculture, in contrast to French trading posts in Canada. These settlements were based on some form of agriculture and had some measure of self-sufficiency, especially in New England.
What made the Chesapeake colony so unhealthy?
What made the Chesapeake colony so unhealthy? Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid were brought because of immigration from England. Characterize the population that existed in both Maryland and Virginia by 1700s.
Why did people come to the English colonies?
First ship with enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia; founding of the House of Burgesses Motivations for colonization: English colonies emerged along the eastern seaboard for a variety of reasons. People, primarily men, originally migrated to Virginia to find gold and silver to make a quick profit.
What did the Chesapeake and southern colonies produce?
Summary of the key terms, events, and concepts of the early Chesapeake and Southern colonies. British colonies in the south, ranging from the Chesapeake to the West Indies, focused on the production of cash crops like tobacco and sugar.
Why was Maryland important to the southern colonies?
Maryland was originally founded to be a safe haven for Catholics and eventually became a safe haven for all Christians. After the successful cultivation of cash crops in the Chesapeake colonies, the Southern colonies were also founded to continue creating large plantations.
Why was slavery so important in the southern colonies?
Enslaved Africans became vital to the cultivation of tobacco as they were immune to many European diseases and soon were nearly 50% of the population in the Chesapeake and Southern colonies. Economics in the colonies: Both the Chesapeake and Southern colonies had rich soil and temperate climates which made large-scale plantation farming possible.