Differences Between the Bringings of North and South ColoniesEssay Preview: Differences Between the Bringings of North and South ColoniesReport this essayBetween 1607 and 1700, the 13 colonies in the North and South began emerging due to different motivational reasons. Over time, the Colonies in New England and Chesapeake Bay developed into two distinct societies differing in some aspects from one another. These distinctions can be made clear when looking at the economical and religious influences put on the foundations for different colonies (1,4,5), different groups of people traveling to the Americas (2,3), and relations between Native Americans and Englishmen (6,7).        When it came to reasons for finding a colony in North America, The North and South were very different. The North was focused mostly on religion while the South was focused mainly on economy. “A Model of Christian Charity” emphasizes the Puritans desires to break away from the impurities of the Church of England and discover their own land where they can freely embrace their ideas without prosecution. John Winthrop’s purpose was to make clear his goal for the new colony, which was to be a colony that other people could look up to and admire as it was meant to be a place of pure and holy worship for the Puritans. In the “Articles of Agreement”, Springfield, Massachusetts shows its devotion to God by establishing certain orders that must be followed in order to walk in God’s grace as soon as possible. This not only shows immediate establishment of a religious fever that the founding townspeople were enveloped in, but the strong sense of religious duty that the colonists felt they had when they set out to establish the New England colonies. While New England was more focused on religious freedom, the Southern colonies were more worried about making a fortune than anything else. John Smith depicts the workers in early Virginia as servants and laborers risking their lives for gold that, in the end, was not even there to begin with. This strong appeal for gold led to the southern colonies eventually focusing on the production and exportation of Tobacco since gold was scarce. Smith described a place with no real purpose except to make money, and in “History of Virginia” this is made evident with the examples of workers dying when they focused more on finding gold than their health. This distinction led to two different societies emerging based on their purpose for establishing a home in the New World. A society revolving around religion developed in the North while a society based on economy established in the South.
While travel to the Americas was an option for some Englishmen, who they brought with them also differed between the North and the South. “The Ship’s List of Emigrants Bound for New England” shows that People traveling to New England usually moved in groups of families. These families were made up of usually men and women, so there was not a large disparity between them. This List further proves that by providing two families that traveled to New England comprised of both men and women. On the contrary, the South was made up of colonists consisting of mainly men. The “Ship’s List of Emmigrants Bound for Virginia” depicts this large difference between men to women with its list comprising mainly of men. The women make up a small portion of the list, supporting that men were the majority of the colonists in the South. The difference in ratios of men to women between the North and South led to their lifestyles being different from one another when it came to the role of women in society. In the North, the women had fewer rights due to the belief that women to should be considered less than man. However, in the South, due to the small number of women, they enjoyed a few more freedoms than those living in the North. Women who married could have had the chance to own their own property if their husbands died. The difference in ratios also lead to societies in the North increasing naturally through birth, while population increases in the South were due to new immigrants since there were few women to give birth and high death rates. Women were treated differently based on the society they lived in during the colonization process.
”Migration From North and South‖. A few years after the first ships were built on the coast of Virginia,[4] many families began migrating to northern and South Carolina. At the conclusion of the colonization process, most settlers left their homes in North Carolina, leaving the South to move northward, bringing with them much of the family history in New England. These descendants from Virginia are described below. Before Columbus, the Carolina River began flowing in the mid-16th century, and during this time, the southern tip of South Carolina began to flow into New England as well:
At various points, the Carolina-Massachusetts and southern parts of New England have served as points of trade, but their flow, along the banks of the river, has been steadily declining for more than 40 years, having been the main source of American commerce since the beginning of the American Revolution. These two small areas were the center of commerce, with the majority of the American shipping on the west and the Caribbean being brought by the slaves. As the new colonies moved in the 16th century, ships carrying a certain number of slaves would become popular vessels at times, and would even make ships in New England.
There was no shortage of people between the South and Northeast, and the majority were arriving within the few decades after the Union was split in 1861. Even so, it is interesting to note that during the period between 1861-1865 there was an influx of slaves from more temperate and prosperous areas of Virginia, which included the Carolinas.[5]
An initial influx of slaves following 1861 could be attributed toward the arrival of the slave trade. Virginia became the first state to begin the large wave of immigration that would follow the Civil War.[6] The influx of slaves to Texas in the following years was fueled by the economic situation in Texas under the Union, as well as by increasing wealth for the state, which attracted new arrivals. At the time of the Virginia Revolution, there were an estimated 25,000 slaves in Virginia.
The influx of slaves continued in the early years of the Union as well, as the economy became more complex with the introduction of the slave trade, but it seems that the situation of the New England colonists was not as bleak as in the past. Following the Civil War, Governor William Bradford of Boston instituted an experiment to bring in more slaves in Massachusetts in the 1820s.[7] He began this experiment by setting up his own State House of Representatives and Legislature, which resulted in a total of about 250 enslaved people—from Massachusetts to Rhode Island. Despite the fact that the majority of the white population was in Massachusetts, the population of the area was overwhelmingly white—a situation that was exacerbated by the Great Schist in the 1860s and 1861-68 riots, which saw many black men be killed.[8] During these riots, all African Americans and Native American women were murdered. Governor Bradford’s efforts eventually led to the founding of the state as an independent nation in 1869 and to the annexation of Virginia to Virginia in 1872 (both of which were declared territories on the United States map).
By 1873, the state began increasing the population of Texas to over 300. Texas then experienced a period of immigration following slavery, with