OVer the years the Massachusetts Bay Colonies and Chesapeake Colonies were slowly growing farther apart.
... goods than were sold. The Colonies also invented a bill of credit, which today is our dollar-bill. The Chesapeake Colonies had an agricultural economy, and the Massachusetts Bay colonies had an economy based on the bay. The people of two colonies differed from each other. In the Chesapeake Colonies the people were mostly wealthy farmers, unlike the Massachusetts Bay colonies who had mostly English puritans of the middling sort. The farmers from the Chesapeake Colonies wanted to keep up the aristocratic way of life from England; they wanted the “look” of England. In the Chesapeake colonies the slaves were mostly African Americans that were sold into slavery, but in the Massachusetts Bay Colonies they were mostly indentured servants. In the Chesapeake Colonies there were also small landowners, and a few former indentured servants that were given a piece of land after they and served there time. The final reason that the two colonies were growing apart was because of the difference in the land and labor. The land in the Chesapeake Colonies was issued to a family by the head-right system, which issued a set amount of land to each family according to how many family members and slaves they had. In The Massachusetts Bay Colonies the land was given to an organized groups the land granted was called a Township. The people of the Chesapeake Colonies often moved around due to the soil erosion. The cause of the erosion was because the farmers would work the ground with the same crop every year causing the soil to be drained of its nutrients making their yields poor. Also in these colonies there were large tracts of land because of the head-right system. There was scattered population because of the large tracts of the land. In the Massachusetts Bay colonies there were only subsistence farming, because of the rocky soil there were shor...