Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 3, 4
Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following settlements:
Southern colonies
Chesapeake colonies
Middle colonies
New England colonies
Then, address the following for your selections:
Compare and contrast the settlement patterns.
What forces and ideas shaped their origin?
Examine the influence of religion for those settlements (e.g., Puritanism, Quakers, and the Anglican Church).
Follow-Up Post Instructions
Compare your selections and analysis of those selections with those of your peers. If they chose different settlements, examine how yours are similar and/or different. If they chose the same settlements, build on their posts by providing additional information about the settlements that you have not already noted in your own post.
Writing Requirements
Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
APA format for in-text citations and list of references
Grading
This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric.
ADDITIONALLY PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING POST:
Hi Class,
The New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies differ in the forces and ideas that shaped the regions and religion influence and settlement patterns. The ideas and forces that brought the population of migrants to the Chesapeake Bay colonies was for profit. The regions economic was based on the production of tobacco. Many migrates came to the region as indentured servants. An indentured servant pledged to work for a number of years in return for paid passage to America and food, clothing and lodging U.S History 2014. This was a source of cheap labor and large work force for the time consuming growing and processing of tobacco. This large serge of indentured servants to help with the tobacco production caused the population of the Chesapeake Bay colonies to increase quickly.
Unlike the Chesapeake region, The New England colonists were focused of religion instead of profit. The New England colonies were the settlements established by English religious dissenters along the coast of the north-east of North America between 1620 and 1640 (Mark, 2021) The New England colonists were mainly Puritans, unlike the Chesapeake Bay colonists who did not have a universal religion (Corbett, 2014). Many Puritan ministers were followed by migrates that envisioned a new English Israel where reformed Protestantism would grow and thrive U.S. History 2014. This migration increased when Henry VIII of England broke away from the Catholic Church and established the Anglican Church. This put Puritans under great religious persecution.
