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Chesapeake Region Dbq Analysis

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The Chesapeake region developed separately from the New Englanders based on the people that immigrated to each area and the environment affected away these colonies developed. The Englishmen in the Chesapeake Bay region were motivated by money and not by religious persecution. They wanted to not talk, but “but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold”(Document F). The idea of getting rich helped motivate them to go to the New World. It was a male dominated society in which according to Document C there were 59/7 ratio men to women traveling to Virginia. Once they did set up in Virginia they started planning the highly profitable tobacco and in some cases would plant tobacco before they planted corn. (Kennedy,32).In Virginia they also had

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