It wasn't until the Indian's intervention to save the dying Englishmen that they realized agriculture was their only means of survival and success economically. The Chesapeake colonists' achieved their goals in the cultivation of tobacco. These colonies "shared a devotion to tobacco, the true faith of the Chesapeake." (61) Not only was tobacco in high demand amongst European countries, but it required extensive labor and care, thus attracting citizens.
of England and providing them with many job opportunities in the New world. The Chesapeake colonies' attracted the less fortunate, lower class English citizens; and was viewed as a place of opportunity for the less fortunate that promised a fresh start with financial success. The Chesapeake settlers were determined to create a society that was economically successful with great wealth, to not only improve their new settlement, but help their motherland of England benefit also.
The defining factor of the New England colonies was strictly for religious reasons. Following the establishment of King Henry VII's efforts to control England both politically and religiously titled the English Reformation, there was turmoil throughout. The reactions to the Reformation varied and was the overall outcome of New England colonization. The New England colonists fled strictly due to their differing and dissenting religious beliefs, thus making the New England colonies, a region of vast religious diversities; including the Puritans, Pilgrims, Quakers to name a few. The New England colonists' measure of success was religiously based, and their goal was to establish a pious colony. The initial religious settlers of New England were the Puritans and the Pilgrims. While both had fled England to pursue a religious lifestyle of their own, the Pilgrims had settled quite peacefully with the natives, and kept to themselves. The Puritans seemed to dominate a majority of the New England colonist population.