Another thing that should be pointed out is that the New England colonies, being along the coast, had easier access to the ships that came across with European goods than the Chesapeake colonies did.

This is an awesome argument! I wish I had come up with an argument as good as yours. I am serious going to enjoy looking at your arguments in the future. I would suggest mentioning what sort of economy the New England colonies had if they were less agricultural than the Chesapeake colonies.

Your argument is good, but I am only reading about the bad things and how they got past them. What kinds of good things were done during the bad times? How did they manage to survive the bad times?

I think that the New England colonies were more successful because their locations along the coast was easier to access by sea-route than the Chesapeake colonies, was less marshy, and was colonized more by people who were used to getting their own food, unlike the "gentleman" colonists at Chesapeake.