Define and bold ALL key terms:
(1) Virginia Company / Jamestown; (2) John Rolfe / Tobacco, (3) Puritans / Great Migration; and (4) Salem Witch Trials / Anne Hutchinson.
During the first decades of the seventeenth century, England developed several distinct colonies. Each colonial region faced different and unique experiences. Write an essay that compares and contrasts the colonial experiences in the Chesapeake (Virginia) and New England (Massachusetts). In your essay, you need to explain: why the English settled these areas and who went there, what the colonists’ expectations were, how well the realities of settlement matched those expectations, and what their societies looked like, and how the colonists made their money. Your thesis statement (argument) must address the following central question: In what major way(s) were the colonial experiences in the Chesapeake and New England similar and/or different?