How did the two main British settlements in North America—New England and the Chesapeake—differ from one another? How were they...

The early settlers in Plymouth and the rest of New England
came predominantly for religious freedom, while many of the early settlers in Chesapeak
Bay area and Jamestown area came for riches. The settlers in Plymouth wrote the Plymouth
Compact, an agreement on how they would govern themselves, while the settlers in the
south had their rules dictated by England and were not self-governed. One of the men who
traveled on the Mayflower, Stephen Hopkins, had previously lived in Jamestown. He was
the only passenger aboard the Mayflower who had been to North America previously. He was
very involved in building relationships with the Native Americans in Plymouth.  In New
England, the Native Americans and the settlers co-existed predominantly peacefully for
fifty years. In Jamestown their wer lots of conflicts and fighting between the settlers
and the Native Americans. In Jamestown, the settlers began growing tobacco and indigo
and were more dependent on agriculture. In Plymouth, the colonists were predominantly
subsistence farmers and fished, cut lumber, and shipped these and furs to
England.