colonies
...and settlers emphasized the idea of “community,” as Winthrop said: "we must delight in each other,…always having before our eyes our Commission and Community in the work, our Community as member of the same body, so shall we kept the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace,” which explains why “New England primarily attracted families.” (101-102) There were many children among the emigrants, and those children were taught religion from their early childhood, and therefore grew up loyal to the church and easily controllable by the same. Any deviants from the regime were silenced or persecuted before they could start any movements that would be a threat to the authority of the church. Such deviants caused accusations of witchcraft, mostly in women, such acts included, “hectoring, threatening, scolding, muttering, mocking, cursing, railing, slandering: the list reads like a handbook of verbal etiquette for witches” (145). As a result, New England was fairly unrepresentative of the real America, as it was a homogenous society dominated by English Puritans and their inflexible doctrines and unstatic customs and economy. Unlike New England, life in the Chesapeake region was centered on economy. Also, contrasting New England, most of the immigrant population was young men, which “created circumstances of social and demographic disruption that deeply affected family and community life” (73). Therefore, the emphasis was not on community, but rather but in the acquisition of wealth, many attempted to go back when they found difficulties instead of opportunities to get rich, like Richard Frethorne who writes for the favor of his father and only complains of his hardships. (65-66) The Chesapeake economy revolved around the tobacco industry, which paved the way for other industries as well. Once there was extensive production of tobacco, “tobacco governed the character and pace of immigration, population growth, settlement patterns, husbandry and land use, transatlantic trade, the development of the home market, manufactures, opportunity, standards of living, and government policy” (82). In addition, the tobacco raised enough to finance the importation of indentured servants, whose servitude helped pay for the trip as well as learn a trade. (68-69)The evolution of Chesapeake society went from “fragile frontier outpsts” to a distinctly socially structured economic society. The middle colonies, on the other hand, were made up of people of many different origins, races, and creeds; therefore, they were “the true melting pot, ethnically and religiously mixed from their foundation” (180). Like most people's idea of America, the middle colonies developed a commercial culture based on a balanced economy, and, besides that, showed no real homogenous cultural traits that ran through the region. Indeed, most of the different groups that coexisted in this region did not intermingle with each other at all, but instead kept their own distinctive cultural and social habits. An example of this is shown in Peter Kalm’s impression of New Jersey when he explains, “These Dutch people keep company on...