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Chesapeake, Virginia

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AP U.S. History 1993 DBQ The Chesapeake and New England colonies were settled by the people of English origin. The Chesapeake and New England regions shared many similarities, these included the English language, some slavery and they were both from a joint - stock company. However there were clear features that caused the differences between the Chesapeake and New England regions. These differences were exceedingly present in the areas of geography, economics and religion.

Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

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A.???The Unhealthy Chesapeake 1.?????Life in the American wilderness was nasty, brutish, and short for the earliest Chesapeake settlers; malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took a cruel toll, cutting ten years off the life expectancy of newcomers (half of people born in early Virginia/Maryland did not survive to twenty) 2.?????The disease-ravaged settlements of the Chesapeake grew only slowly in the seventeenth century, mostly through fresh immigration from England; the majority of immigrants were single men in their late teens and early twenties, and most perished soon after arrival a.?????Surviving males competed for the affections of the extremely scarce women, whom they outnumbered nearly six to one in 1650
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