Essay Compare And Contrast Jamestown Vs Plymouth Plantation

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.

One comparison I took from the documents was that both colonies wanted to provide a suitable place for colonies to grow. Jamestown attempted to grow food even though the Indians grew jealous and eventually made the colonist of Jamestown battle for land. “… since the year 1630 the place began to be more plenty and security, for the Indians, though not subdued, were terrified to a suspension of arms…,” said Sir William Berkeley. (Source 1) Even though Jamestown had a few difficulties beginning their colony, they continued to never give up. Upon their coming, New Plymouth began their colony with a few colonists sick and with little means. As they began building their colony, they started to prosper off the new land. The Indians were pleasant and

Comparatively Jamestown and the Chesapeake colonies were very different from the New England colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay. The Plymouth Massachusetts Bay colonies were founded by Puritans to flee religious persecution by the Church of England and were very religious colonies. The Virginia colonies were founded for the king, and with the objective of finding gold and glory in hopes of bringing wealth to Britain. The joint stock company, The Virginia Company, is what funded the exploration into Virginia. The settlement they were to find needed a good port for their three heavy ships.

The two english colonies of Plymouth and Jamestown, though settled at similar times, emerged as different places that were created for two different reasons. The Pilgrims at Plymouth had very different intentions than the settlers of Jamestown. The Pilgrims saw the New World as a chance for religious freedom while The Virginia Company saw it as way for them to prosper through non-existant gold mines.

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 second English colony was Jamestown. Jamestown was founded by the Virginia Company which was a joint-stock company chartered by King James I. The Virginia Company was made up of two different parties, each with their own goals. The goal of the monarchy was to convert Native Americans to Christianity, whereas the goal of the stock holders who funded the colony was to generate profits. The reason for the location of Jamestown was decided because it was located on a river with a northwest bend in hopes of finding the ever elusive route to Asia.

Plymouth and Jamestown were the first British colonies to be established in America. Plymouth was founded in 1620 near the shores of Cape Cod, New England. Plymouth was named after a port in England which they had departed from. Jamestown was founded 13 years before Plymouth, in 1607, in Virginia and was named after King James I. Even though Plymouth and Jamestown were two different settlements they both shared the same difficulties during their first year in America.

The only similarity that can be brought to the table when conversing the two colonies is a common goal. Even though Jamestown was an all for one colony, they all wanted the same thing, they wanted wealth. Each colony had a common goal. Plymouth’ common goal was to strive in their newly found religious freedom, to carry on to their children and to create a new environment for their people to live in. The goals were different in their own aspects, but they did have a common goal.

Jamestown would not have survived had it not been for the strong leadership capabilities of Captain John Smith. He brought order out of anarchy (Brands, 2009, p. 35). Captain John Smith traded with the Indians for food. Smith was later saved from execution by an Indian

The Pilgrims moved to the New World for religious freedom; they were protestants who didn't agree with the Church. They originally moved to Holland, for religious freedom, but they felt their children were being corrupted. Then they heard about the colonies in Virginia and decided to make the voyage. The colonists in Jamestown were part of the Church of England, the Anglican faith. As Jamestown was founded in Virginia, it had

Hannah Heck 4th hour General History The first settlers of America all had their own goals, different ways of life, and all came for separate reasons. With an open mind, John Smith and William Bradford both set sail from New England with hopes of a new beginning. There are many things alike and many things different about the General History of Virginia and of Plymouth Plantation. Both John and William have strong personalities that live through their writing.

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.

They were not able to change the ways in Great Britain so the group decided to move to North America. Not on the bases of Jamestown to profit of new land but to be able to practice their beliefs freely. They wanted to be self-governed and to establish education and a new rules they felt fit for their people. In 1630 the Puritans sailed to America and established the town of Plymouth County. The settlers of Massachusetts suffered the same problems as Jamestown with lack of food, disease, and issues with Natives. Jamestown however, was believers of Anglican faith, which was the Church of England. While the Puritans where the first self-governed colony. and religiously free from the mother

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,