The founding and establishment of Virginia and Massachusetts created two entirely different worlds responsible by the colonists who migrated from England to the New World. Nonetheless, colonists who migrated to Virginia and Massachusetts evoked unfortunate hardships from natural disasters to high mortalities beyond their control. Love of independence, materialism and wealth were just few of the reasons why many men yearned to migrate to Virginia from England in the 17th century. These individuals envisioned Virginia …
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…that migrated to the New World created two totally different worlds resulting from their diverse economic and social values. With Puritan's trepidation of moral and political chaos, they focused their attention on authority and order where as Jacobean's focused their attention on self-fulfillment and money. The result in Virginia created an isolation of plantation life and stagnant institutions, where as Massachusetts created a cohesive, stable unit of kinships and a more prosperous society than Virginia.