By the early 17th century, twelve English colonies were on their way to survival in the New World. The only colony not started before 1700 was Georgia. These twelve colonies, although unique as individual colonies, began to form similarities. Although eastern America was colonized by Englishmen in the 18th century, motivations, geography, and the colonists themselves created two distinct societies, New England and Chesapeake. The motivations of the founders of the colonies in each region played a significant role in the region's development. Sir Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Company, a joint-stock company, were among the first to attempt to develop settlements in the New World. Their motive for founding Roanoke and Jamestown in the Chesapeake region was primarily to make money. Thus the constant reminder that their first objective was to make a profit influenced the Virginia colonists. However, this belief in making profits was almost the collapse of the colony as its settlers were more interested in finding gold than building shelter and growing food, and it eventually found its outlet in the cash crop, tobacco, which John Rolfe perfected. Virginians were already greedy and self-centered. They were more concerned with personal gain than equality, and this is how the different levels of society appeared. Life was centered on plantations, so wealthy planters were the most important. Their constant need for labor led to the introduction of land grants and indentured servitude through the right-head system. Furthermore, the Carolinas, proprietary colonies created by Lord Berekley and others, were founded solely to profit the owner, which they eventually did through cash crops as well. However, in the New England region, the... middle of paper ...landlords who hold too much political and economic power, as personified by Governor Berkeley. Thus the freed and landless indentured servants rebelled in 1676 in Bacon's Rebellion, as stated in Bacon's Manifesto symbolizing the conflict in Virginia between its aristocrats and the poor inland inhabitants due to the concentration of power by the aristocracy and refusal to help those living on the frontier. Both Chesapeake and New England ended up prospering during the colonial era, despite the vastly different institutions and opinions they each held. The strength of the reasons for the founding of the colonies, the geography and the colonists themselves influenced the contrast. However, over the next century, New England and the Chesapeake would discover the forces of freedom, and freedom would lead them to find common ground: that of freeing themselves from Great Britain during the American Revolution..