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Samuel Kades

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8 September 2015

DBQ #1

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the English began to colonize America for various purposes, including religion and economical benefit. Britain had started to become a superpower due to its mass acquiring of colonies, at one point, controlling up to one-fifth of the world. Although the English settled both New England and the Chesapeake, New England had a religious purpose, while the Chesapeake had an economical purpose; New England’s economy was based primarily on manufacturing and industrialization whereas the Chesapeake’s economy was based on agriculture.

Both the Chesapeake region and New England were regions of colonies settled by the English. During this time period, the English started to become more interested in the colonizing of America for a variety of reasons, all of which caused Britain to become more politically as well as economically strong. The English motivated the colonization of America in several ways. In the Chesapeake region, the English encouraged both the settlement of America and the use of indentured servants by the use of the headright system; a system that promised plantation owners fifty acres of land if they paid for an indentured servant’s voyage to America. In the “Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina”, the use of the headright system is clearly shown. The purpose of this system shown in the document was to motivate large plantation owners to pay for an indentured servant’s journey to the Chesapeake by awarding them large portions of land, which directly led to larger colonies being under the control of the English. (Doc 7). The colonization of America by the English caused the English to become more powerful, a motivation that spurred the people group to colonize both the North and the South.

Although the English settled both the Chesapeake region as well as New England, the purpose of each settlement varied significantly....