Chesapeake Colonies Dbq

Colonies were created to collect valuable natural resources The relative goals of the founding of the New England and Chesapeake colonies shaped the colonists’ actions and experiences between 1580 and 1763 significantly. While early Chesapeake colonists hoped to make a quick profit leading over time for their individual gains, early colonists in New England hoped to create a community based on God’s will in an effort to settle and create a home that is to be looked upon as an example to others.
John Winthrop the first governor of Massachusetts wrote “Reasons to be Considered” in 1629 as this group of settlers was about to leave England for Massachusetts. It was written to encourage other people to either follow them or help fund them. The document stated nine reasons why people should go and answered the objections that they may have. Winthrop believed that they needed to go because it is what God …show more content…
As a result, the colony need to use slaves for their labor increased. Since slavery is lifelong rather than serving a specific terms of years and wanted laborers who didn’t expect land. The Black population in British Colonies increased doubling every twenty years. In 1662, Great Britain passed a law in which slavery would be perpetuals and hereditary. In other words, slave status would be passed through their mothers. This law encouraged sexual encounters with slave women. Slavery became known as a Racial System In which Africans were enslaved and whites were free. In 1667 in Virginia, a law stating that the “the conferring of baptisme doth not alter the condition of the person as to his bondage or freedome”. In other words, as a slave one wasn’t considered to be free based on one baptism but instead on their ancestors religion not as them as an individual. It shows how the colonist were trapping Africans into submission and wanting to take their freedom away

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