Compare the culture and economy of southern colonies and New England colonies

In the Seventeenth Century, the society in New England tried to re-create on a modified scale the social structure they had known in the Old World, but in the southern colonies, as spread of the slaves, the gap in southern colonies social structure was widened. Both Viriginia and Maryland employed the “headright’ system to ecourage the importation of servant workers. Master reaped the benegits of the landownership from the headright system. These masters, men who already had at least modest financial means, became the great merchant-planters, lord of vast riverfront estates that came to dominate the agriculture and commerce of the southern colonies. Likewise owning gangs of slaves and vast dominant of lands, the planters ruled the region’s economy and virtually monopolized political power. Just before the Revoluntionary War, 70 percent of the Virgiania legislature was from the families established in Viriginian before 1690(72). As the life only revolved around the great plantation, indentured servants led a hardlife in early days of the settlement. Far beneath the wealthy, prestige farmers, the oppressed servant and slaves remained the enchained society’s basement. Cruder frontier life in New England did not in any case permit the display of the class distinction. With glaciated soil strewn with countless rocks, land was relative cheap and less usable compared to the enrich planter dominated South. Because New England failure to attract immigration, the grudging land left the colonism less ethnically mixed than its southernneghbors. Although economic less prosperous, the New England planters had a certain simple egality as life was humble but comfortable middle sort standard