Similarities/Differences between Middle and Chesapeake Colonies

How was agriculture different from the middle colonies and the Chesapeake colonies?

The Chesapeake region had a humid climate with a longer growing season, which was suitable for cash crops. The cooler climate in the middle colonies allowed grain crops to be grown.

How was slavery different from the middle colonies and the Chesapeake colonies?

Development of large-scale slavery in the Chesapeake facilitated cash crop production, as opposed to the smaller scale of slavery and greater dependency on indentured servants and immigrant labor in middle colonies.

How were the middle and Chesapeake colonies similar?

Both had to pay taxes to England because of the Navigation Acts.

How were the economies of the Middle and the Chesapeake colonies similar?

Shipbuilding and lumbering were more prevalent in the middle colonies, and Chesapeake focused on cash crop agriculture.

Compare religious freedom between the Middle, New England, and Chesapeake colonies

Middle: citizenship to all protestants
New England: Strict-Massachusetts Bay (must be Puritan) except Rhode Island
Chesapeake: Anglican Church and Catholic Church

How was the environment different from New England and Chesapeake colonies?

New England: colder, rockier, healthier. The economics had family farms, fishing and trading.
Chesapeake: humid, long growing season, more disease. Economics based on cash crops like tobacco

Compare the reasons for settling in New England and Chesapeake colonies

NE: families seeking religious freedom
Chesapeake: single men seeking fortune so enslaved forced migrants

Compare the labor and wealth in New England and Chesapeake colonies

NE: family labor, general wealth equality
South: slave labor, large disparity of wealth

Similarities between governing system of New England and Chesapeake colonies

Both democratic, with town meetings for white men (NE) Mayflower Compact 1620 and legislative assembly (South) House of Burgesses 1619

Similarities in relationship with natives for the New England and Chesapeake colonies

Wars of Extinction: Metacom’s war w/ Womponags (NE) and Anglo-Powhatan war w/ Powhatans (South)