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The Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies located in British America and centered on the Chesapeake Bay.
How did the demographics of the Chesapeake and Southern colonies compare to the demographics of the New England colonies? What were the reasons the English colonies transitioned from using indentured servants to using enslaved Africans as their primary source of labor?
Chesapeake Colonies: Virginia, Maryland By 1700, the Virginia colonists had made their fortunes through the cultivation of tobacco, setting a pattern that was followed in Maryland and the Carolinas. In political and religious matters, Virginia differed considerably from the New England colonies.
Aware of the mistakes made by Virginia’s first colonists, Maryland’s settlers, rather than hunt for gold, made peace with the local Native Americans and established farms and trading posts, at first on the shores and islands of the lower Chesapeake. The field hands included indentured labourers working off the terms of their passage and ...
Exploration of the New World in the 15th and 16th centuries by Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Pedro Alvares Cabral, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Sir Walter Raleigh, and others stimulated English adventurers and capitalists to seek fortune across the Atlantic Ocean.
The political structure of the Southern Colonies and the Chesapeake region and the manner of the different American political figures reflected the structure of the British Government. When the Southern and Chesapeake colonies were first settled, they encountered numerous obstacles including conflicts with the natives.
The Chesapeake Colonies, primarily Virginia and Maryland, were among the earliest English settlements in North America, founded in the early 17th century. These colonies were characterized by their reliance on tobacco cultivation and the establishment of a plantation economy that heavily depended on enslaved labor.
Of the thirteen original colonies, Maryland had one of the most progressive governments in terms of religious freedom and its treatment of Indians. It guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians and treated Indians as persons, including paying for their land. In 1642, the first Africans arrived.
Present-day Maryland and Virginia surround Chesapeake Bay. This region was a good place to begin colonizing because the Bay is one of America's largest estuaries, and once had a coastline of over 3,000 miles. Being deep, it was always navigable by those settling and trading there.
The Chesapeake Colonies, consisting primarily of Virginia and Maryland, were among the earliest English settlements in North America, founded in the early 17th century.