Diseases: The Upward Colony Of The Plymouth Colony

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.

The stories called “The General History of Virginia” and “Of Plymouth Plantation” are both similar and dissimilar stories. These stories were journals of two different people going through the process of building their own town. Even though these stories are very much different from each other, they both talk about the same thing. They both want to build a town where the number of population is very high. Although “Of Plymouth Plantation” is a story where religion is something they do, something they have faith on, it helps them. It helps them in a way because they are starving and have no food nor water. But, having faith is what helps them go through the struggle of starvation. In the other story “The General History of Virginia” they are

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

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European nations vigorously began to take over the newly discovered Americas throughout most of the 16th century leading into the 17th century. England was very forceful in pushing out multiple groups of people to the eastern coast of what is now known as North America. At that time there were only two prominent regions in North America, they were known then as the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. These two colonies would eventually band together to stand as one nation, but that was toward the end of the 17th century. The beginning tells a completely different story, both colonies had very different beliefs on what the exact reason may have been for the settlers to come to the New World. They lived very different lives because of this. A lot of these differences affected them politically in who they followed, socially in who they spoke with, and economically in who they would do business with.

Throughout the colonies, the environment was a key factor that played a huge role in their society. The environment was a stepping stone that helped shaped the colonies and provided many opportunities for them. While the social, political, and economic factors were important to US History, the environment had an impact on the colonies because of the Grass Revolution, Jamestown, and the Columbian Exchange.

The Massachusetts bay Colony was found y the puritans and religious minority group who migrated to the New World seeking to create a model religious community The Puritans believed that the anglican church needed to be purified of the influences of catholicism.

The next series of Colonies set up by the English developed in the north of the Chesapeake, and mostly attracted middle class Puritans who either strongly rejected the English Church, or were eventually rejected for their radical ideals. To their luck, the area around modern day Boston had a benefiting climate that lacked many of the diseases in the Chesapeake colonies, such as Malaria. Adverse to the crops of the Chesapeake settlers, the Puritans grew wheat, rye, corn, potatoes, beans, and garden plants. In addition, the Puritans had an abundant of seafood, in which they acquired 6 million pounds of fish by 1675. This also helped create more job opportunities for colonists, due to the rapidly growing ship production that required thousands

On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company, founded the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Jamestown colonists purpose is to find gold, silver, and other resources all they want is claiming land and riches. Smith left the Jamestown settlers without a strong leader so he left all his people alone. There’s no houses for them, there’s no supplies for them to survive due to the lack of leadership. So the settlers faced many hardships they had not expected. The settlers lacked some skills necessary to contribute for themselves like farming, hunting, etc. Many settlers died not only because of starvation & disease but also during the winter many settlers starve or froze to death because they don’t have anything for that season. After all what happens to them the settler adjusted to their new lives in America. The few remaining colonists turned to local Powhatan Indians to help them learn the process of planting and harvesting corn and tobacco. The settlers relied on

d) The early colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts experienced some similarities in the conditions, challenges, and ways of life. Both colonies were in constant fear of Native Americans, who perhaps had a hostile attitude towards the colonists because of how tribes were treated by explorers in the past. Captain John Smith suggests that he was the one keeping the Native Americans from seriously harming the colonists of Virginia. However, Smith returned to England after a couple of years in America and wrote of events that were told to him secondhand, “For the savages [Indians] no sooner understood Smith was gone but they all revolted, and did spoil and murder all they encountered ....

On august 1585 the first colonists of england have arrived at roanoke and built a fort in 2 weeks. 2 months later the colonists ran out of supplies. They sent a rescue mission to england to bring supplies. It has been many months but the people that were sent did not come back. On 1890 most colonists decided to abandon roanoke and go to croatan island to seek for supplies. They wrote on the trees croton and before they could finish writing croton on another tree. The spanish had attacked them with full rage. The colonists had enough time to run and escape to croton but they did not know that the spanish were following them. The colonists were frightened so much that they were shaking. They asked the native americans to give them shelter and

The Massachusetts colony, otherwise known as the ‘Massachusetts Bay colony’ was originally settled by Puritans in 1630. They were plagued by the religious persecutions of King Charles I and the Church of England. Weary from this dogged torment, they left England under the leadership of John Winthrop. These original colonists quickly established many small towns in the name of high religious ideals and strict societal rules. They also planted churches, spread Puritanism and religiously educated the masses, as these were some of their goals. A utopian society that other colonies looked upon with high regards was the ultimate goal.

The European conquest for establishing North American colonies began with various motivations, each dependent on different, and/or merging necessities: economics, the desire to flee negative societal aspects, and the search for religious freedoms. Originally discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 in search for a trade route to Cathay (China), North America remained uninhabited, excluding the Native American establishments. Following this discovery, Spain –along with other European nations such as France, England, Sweden and the Netherlands– soon began the expedition to the new land with vast expectations. Driven by economic, societal, and religious purposes, the New World developed into a diversely structured colonial establishment

Scurvy occurs as a result of a lack of Vitamin C for prolonged periods of time. Humans regularly use Vitamin C to perform vital function in the body. In the Age of Exploration, sailors went without any Vitamin C for upwards of a month due to a lack of education, inhumane conditions, and the spoilage time for fruits and vegetables. To get enough sailors to voyage across the world, captains and current workers would capture people to join their crew, never to see their families again. The captured faced deplorable conditions, including working vigorously for hours on end, limited sleep, rats crawling around and fecal matter around them. Stress levels increase due to the barbaric conditions they faced. Studies show that workers

Scurvy is a nutritional disease that stems from a lack of Vitamin C. I chose this as my topic because I have always been interested in history and how historically on ships it was difficult to have fresh fruit aboard because they would spoil on long trips and instead they would have meats and foods that could be preserved with heavy amounts of salt. Scurvy was first documented as a disease by Hippocrates and was discovered by ancient Egyptians in 1550 but people would often forget eating Vitamin C is an effective cure for the disease. In the 13th century people often suffered from Scurvy. Eventually the explorers wizened up to this and the Portuguese planted fruit trees and vegetables that they could harvest on their way home from journeys