North vs South

In the northern colonies, religion was the basis of life, no matter for freedom or simply for separation from the crown, but in the southern states, monetary gain was the most important, as the most appealing draw was not the religion at all, but the fertile land. In the northern colonies, such as Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, religion was the first appeal for Europeans to pack their bags and start a new life for themselves. In Massachusetts, Plymouth was first founded by Separatist pilgrims who didn’t want their children to undergo “dutchification”, as Bailey calls it, yet didn’t want to be persecuted in England for their religious beliefs. The Bay Colony was founded as and was developed into a Puritan utopia, where puritans could come and live a pure and simple life, away from the threats to society like Anglicanism and the heretics in Rhode Island. There, it was all about religious freedom, even for Jews and Catholics. On the other hand, the South was completely tilted toward the economic standpoint. People came to get land, and the land was then used to create plantations to grow cash crops such as tobacco, especially tobacco, indigo, and rice. Virginia was the first example of this, where joint stock companies would sell the land and hopeful farmers would create massive plantations on the backs of their black slaves. Religion was not even a part of the picture. Also, there was Carolina, which was almost identical to Virginia in growth, an for the same reasons, just always a little behind. The Southern colonies were completely economically influenced and religiously oblivious where as the Northern colonies developed and tailored their societies around their religious beliefs, not their economic success.