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A 5 page paper which examines the reasons for settling the Chesapeake and New England. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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honesty there were many other reasons, not the least of which was the opportunity to own land and to start more financially lucrative businesses, something that was not truly possible
in England or much of Europe. In addition, the various colonies all seemed to have different attributes that lured one type of colonist or another to that particular region. For
example, the Chesapeake was generally settled for very different reasons than New England. The following paper examines why these regions were settled by particular colonists. Reasons for Settling
America As mentioned, one of the reasons for settling the new land was freedom from religious persecution. For many colonies this was perhaps the biggest reason for settling, as will
be discussed further on. But, for those who settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the reasons
behind settling the Chesapeake: "English interest in the Chesapeake area had begun in the late sixteenth century as a prospective outpost for attacking Spanish ships, as a possible source of
precious metals and semitropical crops, as a presumably congenial location for English settlement and conversion of the Indians, and, perhaps, as the eastern terminus of a transcontinental passage. By the
early seventeenth century, when English explorations farther north and south proved disappointing, Englands imperialists focused on the Chesapeake area as the most promising site for British colonization" (Vaughan, 2004).
From this simple explanation it becomes clear that the reasons for settling the Chesapeake involved the pursuit of wealth, such as gold in Virginia. It was seen as the best
possible place to have any kind of outpost that could be used for trade, for bringing Christianity to the Natives, for bringing the British in, in order to give them
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