The Spanish were the first to settle in what is now the United States. The oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine Florida, was colonized by the Spanish in 1565, forty years before England sent its first venture into the New World. England soon caught on, and wanted to enlarge their trade to begin competing with other countries in Europe. When English settlers started coming to the new world they settled in two main regions, the Chesapeake Bay and New England. Even though these settlers were all English, two completely different societies began to develop simultaneously. The two regions barely had any contact with the other until the mid-eighteen hundreds. The reasons these regions were so different included their reasons for colonization, their family structures, their government structure, and even how they dealt with the problems they had with their government.
The first people coming to settle the Chesapeake Bay came over on a ship called "Merchant Hope," a name......
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