There was a variety of reasons as to how the American colonial patterns of settlement differed among the European nations.
When England colonized the world, they sent a numerous amounts of people over to the Americas to settle in two primary parts of America, New England and Chesapeake colonies. Although both had many similarities, due to they type of people and they way they land was, they became distinct. They Chesapeake area had a lot of indentured servants and were in the Americas' searching for gold, silver and fortunes. Because they were not interested in long term settlement, there were many young men and very few women. These ratios were 5:1, and 70% of Chesapeake men never married. The Chesapeake colonies men who outlived all diseases from their childhood, lived to be about 45 years old, so the environment was obviously not in good enough conditions.
However, New Englanders were searching for religious freedoms to escape religious prosecution. Many of New......
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