The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Episode 4, Radicals in the Wilderness Episode 4, Radicals in the Wilderness.

Streaming video - 2003

If the southern English colonies were motivated by economic self-interest, the northern settlements were motivated by ideas. In New England's case, the ideas were religious. The "godly commonwealth" of the first Puritans was succeeded by the same slow tendency toward aristocracy, based on transatlantic commerce rather than commodities, that characterized Virginia.