Compare And Contrast Jamestown And Plymouth

The Jamestown and Plymouth settlements were both settled in the early 1600's. Plymouth and Jamestown were located along the shoreline in Massachusetts and Virginia, respectively. Although both had different forms of government, they both had strong leadership. Jamestown was controlled by the London Company, who wanted to profit from the venture, while the Puritans who settled at Plymouth were self-governed with an early form of democracy and settled in the New World to gain religious freedom. John Smith took charge in efforts to organize Jamestown, and at Plymouth William Bradford helped things run smoothly.

In 1607, the Virginia Company commissioned the first English settlement called Jamestown. Plymouth was the first New England colony founded in 1620. Due to the motivated purposes of colonization, it altered the way each region developed. The Chesapeake colony was created primarily to get rich while the New England colony was established for religious purpose. Although the Chesapeake and New England colonies were settled around the same time, by the 1700s, they were developed into two distinct societies.

The Indians knew how to live off the land and were expert hunters and gatherers their main food they grew was corn and traded with the colonist by giving them corn and gathering up food for them. Back in England people who were wealthy had no clue how to survive on the plains and take care of a farm and plow fields and hunt for meat. Since they came from the city of England the Englishmen were people who did not know that kind of life. They were wealthy Englishmen; most of these men were lazy and didn’t know what manual labor was. In addition, there were Englishmen of trade who were carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers who settled down in Jamestown. It was known that one of the main reasons why the Englishmen settled in Jamestown in hope to find gold, rubies, pearls, and silver and to be able to sell it in England for a profit. Devastation struck instead, within a few months less than hundred died. These deaths were excruciating deaths, and the horror of deaths continued from 1607 to 1610. Some men would find themselves going out of their mind, while others had a blistering burning fever, and some men’s skin would just peel off like peeling off a boiled potato and sudden deaths rapidly appeared, some licked up the blood from their falling comrades as some swelled up so fast less than a hundred from five hundred survived. Many of the colonists were very weak and could not do hardly anything. Some figured the cause of the deaths was from

The settlement of Virginia represent an English colon in the New World of North America. These colonist land in the location of Jamestown. The settlers were the first English settlers. These colonist settled there from 1607 to 1707, during the American Revolution .The Colony of Virginia was nicknamed “ Old Dominion” for it loyalty to the English by King Charles. Add the info for other one. The settlement for Massachusetts were the Puritan later known as pilgrims. Theses settlers were also colonist from England. Jamestown landed on Virginia along the James River. Plymouth landed along t what is now Massachusetts Bay. These were the second to settle in the New World, in 1620.Both were charter originally by the Virginia Company. The five sources of information for this paper are: The Perils of Emigration, A German Migrant in Philadelphia, Increases Mather on Indian Wars, Roger Clap Mass Bay Lean Years, and Iroquois Chiefs Address the Governors of New York and Virginia.

Leaders of Plymouth and Jamestown are both compare because they both came from England, Native Americans aided the newly incorporated groups by supplying them for food, and both empires resulted in the starvation and death. However, in Jamestown, John Smith set a goal to make money and get rich, developed the idea of everyone for themselves, men were the dominant gender, and Smith abandoned the colony and never decided to return. As for Plymouth, William Bradford 's’ goal was to have religious freedom, the group helped one another, families were unity of the empire, and Bradford was more caring and considerate of his people and remained this way for the rest of his life.

The first English colony was Roanoke. Roanoke was founded in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh. The purpose of this colony was to provide the English a toe hold into the New World. Roanoke Colony was neither profit seeking or religiously motivated, but by the opportunity to establish a settlement in the New World.

Both Plymouth and Jamestown came from England. All people from England created these towns in what they called the “new world”. One thing that they didn’t know was that there was going to be starvation and death. Adjusting to a new plain environment can be risky and unsafe in many ways. But in luck, they met the native americans who provided them with some food and supplies to help

The essay discusses from the story “From the general history of Virginia”, by John Smith, a historical narrative is about the landing and the discovery of Virginia in 1607 at a place called Jamestown, this was the first permanent English settlement in the new world, the Americas. Also “From of Plymouth plantation”, by William Bradford, a historical account, is about when 13 years later about 100 settlers went on the big fancy ship called the Mayflower and landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies, english settlements in north America were born. They historically had some similarities and also the colonies had differences too.

There were three different colonies that started on the land of America. The colonies started out around the same time period. They were the Jamestown, Plymouth, and Rhode Island. These colonies came to America for the same reason, freedom. The Jamestown colony came to America looking for golds, silvers, and precious stones, which they expected to get them for free except a little labor. Similar to Jamestown, Plymouth came to America for the freedom of religion. They were the Puritans, and did not want to associate themselves with the church of England. Just like the other two colonies, Rhode Island came to the New World because the Freedom they desire. Although the colonies have somewhat a similar desires coming to America, their perspective

England colonized the Americas much later than Spain and France. After three failed expeditions between 1578 and 1587 by Raleigh, John Smith finally established Jamestown as the first New World settlement in 1607. Jamestown itself almost failed, but with the help of natives, tobacco farming, and the arrival of African servants, it flourished. Puritans arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, and founded Plymouth. The Massachusetts Bay Colony formed in 1630, drawing many thousands of immigrants. Plymouth and the Bay Colony would ultimately merge into the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691. Roger Williams started the Rhode Island Colony in 1635. After killing or pacifying most area Native Americans in the Pequot and King Philip's Wars culminating

    Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay were the first English colonies formed in North America in the early 1600’s. While the Jamestown settlers searched for gold, the Massachusetts Bay colonist came to escape persecution in England and obtain religious freedoms. Although Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay were both English colonies, they both share many similarities as well as differences socially, economically, and politically. Social similarities include the dealings with Native Americans. (examples of each)

The Virginia and New England colonists struggled to adapt to the radically different conditions of their new environments. However, that is where the similarities between the two seem to end. Both colonies boasted different economies, political systems, societies and cultures, which place them at opposite ends of the colonial spectrum.

The English had two main colonies in the new world, Jamestown and Plymouth. The first colony was Jamestown, established in Virginia in 1607. Jamestown was settled by Captain John Smith, and was named after King James I. Tobacco was the main export of Jamestown, and became the basis of the Jamestown economy, sending more than 50,000 lbs of the plan back to Europe by 1618 (textbook 46). Jamestown had a very rocky start, many colonists dying in the first few years of the settlement, and the settlers had many problems with natives. Shortly after the arrival of English colonists the Natives attacked them, and were finally forced back by a canon from the English. A very uneasy truce was finally settled between the natives, called the Powhatans,

Jamestown presented more prospects to colonists than Massachusetts Bay Colony by allowing more than one religion, workers rights, and freedom of speech. Jamestown settlers had a bond from England guarantees the rights of settlers, as they would have had it in England. The Puritans formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony and they established a charter also. Both colonies had their have and have not in them. Massachusetts Bay Colony encourage the church greatly and Jamestown boost working over religion. The starting of a democracy, equality was from Jamestown.

The colonists set up a colony at Jamestown to defend themselves against the Indians, and eventually Powhatan’s people came forward to open the trade of corn with the colonists. This corn eventually kept the colonist alive until another ship of more people and supplies came in. This however, did not prepare the colonists for the winter of 1609-1610, or “the starving time”, when only 60 of the original