Despite the fact that New England and Chesapeake were both settlement areas of the English people, they grew to be two different societies by the period around 1700. In this case, this distinctiveness occurred as a result of developments in economic, social, and religious ideas. As far as the immigrants in Chesapeake were concerned, their life was terrible and fatal since diseases such as malaria, dysentery, and typhoid led to the death of many of them. As a result of this, virtually half of the settlers in Virginia and Maryland had died by the onset of the twentieth century.
It can be further argued that, since these two groups were more concerned with the matters distinctive to their regions and their experience, they had varied situations, each group reorganizing and rebuilding its societies which resulted in their differences. Based on this, due to the extension of the regions, the groups’ urges for settlement were crucial for building these societies. In this case, despite the fact that New England was a good place where religiously victimized people ran, settlers made an effort of dispersing their own beliefs and faith. This can be seen from the statements of John Winthrop that illustrated settlers in New England’s ambitions for a ‘Holy Utopia’ especially when he said that, “we shall be a city upon a hill.”
Further, the differences between the two societies were clear since New England was a royal colony that emphasized the Puritan religion, while the Chesapeake society were Anglicans who did not emphasize much on their religion. On the other hand, the two societies had similarities in that both of them were not happy with the lasting colonization in America. Additionally, they were both interested in expanding their territories within the extensive regions of settlement.