Settlers coming to the Chesapeake Bay were mostly middle aged men, and they brought few women. They had not intended to stay and raise families; they came to get rich and go home...

The settlers here were too busy trying to attain financial success, and were separated by vast plantations, which kept them away from unity and collaboration with each other...

When the Church of England separated from Catholicism under Henry VIII, Protestantism flourished in England. Some Protestants wanted complete separation from Catholicism and embraced Calvinism...

(Document D) The puritans thought after many years of experience that they needed a wage regulation so that they received money but to an extent. (Document E) As for the Chesapeake area they were clearly hoping to “strike gold” in the New World...

"New England was different from the Chesapeake"- Chesapeake was an agricultural based society where tobacco was the main crop grown by mainly indentured servants and other small farmers, main cash crops included rice, indigo, and tobacco, unlike the Chesapeake the New England colonies had a short growing season and had towns instead of spread out plantations, also in New England religion shaped society so that you were not a member of society if you were not a member of the church, New England was a very puritanical and strict society, another difference is the environment the Chesapeake had a longer, warmer season and better soil, the Chesapeake was also much more reliant on trade, socially the colonies were very diverse as well the New England colonies based everything of their puritanical religions while the Chesapeake had social class distortion and depended on slavery and servitude Slavery reshaped colonial society- because the human cargos paid off by the work the slaves put out produced more goods, which in turn boosted the international trading system, which sparked interest in the new colonies from England who ended up restricting and taking a percent of the profits Racial composition was altered by 1700- by that time there were so many slaves in the Chesapeake colonies that the percent of blacks in a population was approximately 10-25% , and consisted of almost all of the colonies working force Effects of Bacon's Rebellion- a turning point in colonial relations with Indians, also afterwards many landowners began to purchase large numbers of slaves, also brought about a treaty that opened most of the Indian Territory to English settlement

Other underlying purposes of the colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were to purify the Church of England, and to ensure salvation for the "elect"...

Chesapeake's lack of families-and more importantly-lack of women kept reproduction rates from being up to par. Thus, New England's growth was steady a nd stable, whereas Chesapeake Bay suffered the effects of an extremely low growth rate...