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The early seventeenth century was a time period defined by discovery, expansion, and the ensuing new societies in land previously thought to be non-existent by Europeans.
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The early seventeenth century was a time period defined by discovery, expansion, and the ensuing new societies in land previously thought to be non-existent by Europeans. While the Spanish and French settled in different corners of the New World, the English established their colonies relatively close to each other - in what is now known as Massachusetts and New England, while another group settled a few hundred miles southward, in the Chesapeake Bay area. However, a century and a half later, these two English societies were different in many ways: economically, politically, socially, and religiously, it is hard to imagine that the people within these colonies had indeed originated from the same place. These divergences between the New Englanders and the Virginians sprouted from the difference in their original reasons to leave England. The settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were a group of people dissatisfied with the religious conditions...
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