Comparison in Period 2 Practice Test

The key difference was that the Chesapeake was a Spanish province governed by missions, while Carolina was a French seigneurial colony focused on wheat estates.

Both areas expanded only through peaceful treaty-making with no warfare, land seizure, or demographic change, leaving Native societies unaffected.

The Chesapeake had no land hunger because tobacco required little acreage, while Carolina expansion ended by 1650 because England prohibited all westward settlement.

Carolina expansion was driven mainly by New England cod fishing interests, while Chesapeake expansion was driven mainly by fur trading alliances with the French.

Chesapeake expansion was tied to tobacco land hunger along river systems, while Carolina expansion combined plantation growth with trade and conflict in the interior, including Native enslavement pressures.