Differences Of John Smith And The Plymouth Plantation Colonists

One thing they have in common is that both John Smith and William Bradford started a colony after coming from England to be part of the new world. Smith and his group named his colony Jamestown. While, Bradford’s group settled in Massachusetts naming his colony Plymouth. Starting a colony might be a something they share in common but, the way they built their colonies isn’t.

Between the years of 1606 and 1620 two colonies were founded along the eastern cost of North America. These two colonies were known as the Jamestown colony (1606), and the Plymouth colony (1620). They were similar in that they both struggled to survive in the early years of settlement due to famine, and disease. They were different in a variety of ways with some relating to environmental factors, Indian relations, reasons for coming to the new world, and their experiences upon arrival in the new world.

First off, Jamestown was mostly made up of men who had traveled for business, while Plymouth was populated by women, men, and children who pilgrimaged for religious security. Because of their reasons for travel Jamestown colonist were self seeking, and self serving, but the Puritans never hesitated to help their fellow Puritans. The leaders of these colonies were also abundantly different. Smith was boastful and made himself out to be a hero of some sort, Meanwhile, Bradford was humble and gave God credit for his and the colony’s accomplishments.

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.

Jamestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had many similarities and differences. Many of these differences were due to their physical location and climatic conditions. The success of both colonies can be contributed to strong leadership and the characteristics of the personalities of the settlers that inhabited each settlement. Many of the early problems in both settlements can be contributed to a lack of knowledge on the parts of the settlers along with attacks from neighboring Native American tribes.

Beginning with the intention of moving to the New World, settlers from Jamestown were in search of wealth in the New World and when reality struck, they did not handle labor well. On the contrary, Pilgrims from Plymouth were looking for religious freedom and were hardworking when it came to labor. Considering, that the Plymouth colony was cold and lacking in fertile soil, this caused the Pilgrims in Plymouth to not be able to support and feed themselves using traditional farming techniques, unlike Jamestown, whose colonists relied on farming. However, the colonists in Plymouth were better off than those at Jamestown as a result of the lack of Native groups around the land surrounding the settlement, as well as their cunning motives for establishing the colony, themselves. The colonists of Plymouth were looking to build a working society and not misuse the land for economic reasons like Jamestown.

“The General History of Virginia” and “Of Plymouth Plantation” are similar and different in many ways. They are the first settlers of America and came for different reasons, different goals, and different ways of life. Although they were different they both risked their lives for a new life in return. John Smith and William Bradford were two different people. John Smith was an Adventurer and William Bradford was a Puritan. Their differences and similarities personified through two works of writing.

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 early colonization of Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay was both recognized by the similar groups of people which bring the community spirit, their colonizing, and their government in contradictory beginnings as a colony, religion, and means of economic stability shaped two different politics and economic systems.

The Plymouth colony was originally intended to be in Virginia but the Mayflower veered off course and landed in Cape Cod, modern day Massachusetts. The Plymouth colony was founded by the radical Puritan sect called the Separatists (also known as the Pilgrims). This colony was founded to escape the persecution of the British crown. Conveniently, the location of their colony placed them outside the jurisdiction of British rule which allowed them to form their own government based on the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact allowed them to create their own laws and made them no longer subjects of British

Long before the Founding Fathers, European countries built settlements in the wilderness of the New World. During the 1600’s, English settlers founded Plymouth and Jamestown along the Eastern Coast of North America. Puritans established Plymouth to escape the Catholic Church of England. The Virginia Company established Jamestown in search of fortune. Both settlements managed unavoidable contact with the natives. Although both Plymouth and Jamestown’s interactions with Native Americans included early encounters, diplomatic intermediaries, and peace treaties, Jamestown’s approach differed from by displaying less aggression.

This colony was quite different from Virginia. In Plymouth, everyone was each others backbone, meaning everyone helped each other out. Whether it was crops or building etc. Everybody was entitled to religious freedom, their rights. One difference though is that Bradford was more caring of his people and he remained there the rest of his life.

In comparison Virginia and Plymouth had a reason for colonizing in the Americas. It natural that any foreigner would want more money and especially in a placed where no one has touched it. They both had a purpose of being here in the Americas, the colonist had good soil for the plantations and for growing new different groups in the field, and the pilgrims had a very rocky soil and it limited their farming skills, so the colonists had an advantage. The pilgrims were more involved in conflicts with the native Americans that the colonists, they were both were associated with them but numerous times the pilgrims had conflicts with them.The colonists from Virginia and Plymouth both came for the British monarchy of England. Complemnetary to this the colonies had some starvation rapidly going on in their civilizations and also a numerous titanic load of people died. When they arrived in the Americas the native Americans helped them by supplying food because they were not used to the different soils and plantations that they had back in England. The people of Virginia wanted to be wealthy and the puritans from Plymouth came because of religious freedom and because they had religious persecution in their native homelands. Bradford stays as governor in the colonies until the rest of his life and John Smith does not stay, he leaves after an accidental incident happened and he leaves the Americas and goes back to

Well both Virginia and Plymouth had a reason for colonizing in the americas. It natural that any foreigner would want more money and especially in a placed where no one has touched it. They both had a purpose of being here in the americas, the colonist had good soil for the plantations and for growing new different groups in the field, and the pilgrims had a very rocky soil and it limited their farming skills, so the colonists had an advantage. The pilgrims were more involved in conflicts with the native americans that the colonists, they were both were but more them. The colonists from Virginia and plymouth both came for the british monarchy of England. Both colonies had some starvation rapidly going on in their civilizations and also a numerous titanic load of people died. When they arrived in the americas the native americans helped them by supplying food because they were not used to the different soils and plantations that they had back in england. The people of Virginia wanted to be wealthy and the puritans from plymouth came because of religious freedom and because they had religious persecution in their native homelands. Bradford stays as governor in the colonies until the rest of his life and John Smith does not stay, he leaves after an accidental incident happened and he leaves the americas and goes back to england. Both of their journey were not that of easy, they both suffered from

The colonists needed to be concerned about their firearms because of the immense diversity of Indian tribes that could range from welcoming and peaceful to just extremely warlike and hateful. There were some Indian tribes who had distasteful collisions with colonists in the past or just saw them as a future problem and would kill them on contact. The Indian tribes that had this custom of killing tended to be very hardened warriors who were very skilled with their weapons. This meant that the only thing separating these colonists from being flayed alive was the fact that they were almost a 1000 years ahead of the natives in technological advancements.