The first english settlers were motivated by different things. their motivations caused the colonies in the various regions to develop differently. read the following quotes from early leaders in jamestown, massachusetts, and pennsylvania. explain how they represent the motives for settlement in each region. then, give one example of how that motive for settlement affected the early communities in those regions.

jamestown, virginia, in the chesapeake

“there was no talk, no hope, no work but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold.”
– written by captain john smith in 1612 about the early settlers of jamestown

massachusetts in new england

“now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our [future], is…to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our god. for this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man. we must [treat] each other in brotherly affection. we must be knit together in brotherly affection.”
– from the sermon “a model of christian charity,” by john winthrop in 1630

pennsylvania, a middle colony

“no people can be truly happy, [even] under the greatest enjoyments of civil liberties if [deprived] of the freedom of their conscience as to their religious profession and worship.”
– pennsylvania charter of liberties, authored by william penn in 1701