Successful Colonies: Jamestown Vs. Plymouth

The General History of Virginia and Plymouth Plantation have many things alike. Such as, John Smith and William Bradford both starting a colony. Even though, these two stories share a couple things in common they also have their differences. A difference between these two stories is the type of Native Americans they both stumbled across while building their colonies. Both stories can be compared if you spot there similarities and both stories will have their differences between them along the way.

The Massachusetts Bay colony and Virginia had a sundry amount of differences as well as similarities. Each of these colonies was founded upon different ways of living. Digging deeper, there are many more differences about these colonies than there are similarities. Although both colonies eventually experienced the help of the natives, each colony set separate rules and laws for themselves. Virginia is more geographically spread out and more focused on obtaining gold for personal profit, whereas Massachusetts is more of a united, small farmed colony that focused more on the efforts for religious freedom.

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.

They resembled each other most in their governmental systems, and differed a lot in work and in family and communal structures. Each colony had a different life to offer, so one settlement was not necessarily superior to the other. *Chesapeake’s economy could not have been possible without the Columbian Exchange, when this crop was first introduced the Europeans and popularized. *Like Jamestown, Plymouth colonist needed the help of the Natives for foodstuffs. There were components of each that made them succeed, and others that took away from the quality of

Another component comparing Jamestown and Plymouth colonies would be their aspects on Indian relations. The English colonists arrived in Chesapeake Bay where the Powhatan Indians had been calling home for quite some time. There were over thirty Indian tribes totaling 14,000 Indians. This is where the first colony, Jamestown, was settled in 1607. I believe this created a lot of tension between the Indians and the new settlers considering the previous settling and attacks of the Spanish on the Indians. The Indians lived such a generous way of life welcoming the new English settlers by offering them food. However, the good intentions faded quickly after. The leader of the Powhatan Indians, Powhatan, was intending to entice the English through generosity and their selfless attitudes. Sure enough, this act of kindness was overlooked by the English colonists, and they immediately began searching for wealth such as tobacco. As we have spoken about in class, Jamestown was a colony that significantly valued material objects and wealth; whereas Plymouth colony did not focus their rule around that idea. The new colonists were so set on acquiring wealth that they failed to grow crops such as corn and beans. This led the English to depend more on the Indians for food since the Indians were very successful farmers and knew how to live off the land.

Jamestown and Plymouth had many differences but they also had similarities with one another. Both Jamestown and Plymouth were English colonies that left England to find riches, and both of them did eventually find their riches. Also, they both colonized in North America along the east coast. Jamestown and Plymouth both overcame many difficulties while they were trying to start their colony. Even though these relationships were different, both colonies had relationships with the Native Americans.

Sailing overseas from England to a new world were two colonies The Jamestown Colony and The Plymouth Plantation colony travel for their own beneficial reasons to better their lives . both colonies were very different and had different ways , but both faced similar survival situations.

Clearly the new world was not an easy place to live in, considering half the people died in Jamestown in the first four months of being there. John Smith and William Bradford were two men who both wrote of their experiences in America during the early 1600s. Through their writing, these authors help readers better understand the colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth. The two writings told of life in the colonies and what it was like to have lived there. Though both colonies experienced many hardships, when one considers the leadership, Native American relations, and style of writing, it is clear that Plymouth was the better colony.

The Plymouth inhabitants, for the most part, lived in a tightly knit circle of homes around the village's meetinghouse and church. This is perhaps some of the most compelling evidence that Plymouth was established chiefly for religion; for the residents, if more mercenary, would have obtained larger plots of land and disregarded location in relation to one another. Furthermore, the average number of children per family in Plymouth was approximately six, which may sound numerous, but in fact was miniscule for the time. Additionally, there were a diminutive number of slaves in Plymouth. While seemingly unrelated, these two groups of people were both typically used as laborers, and since Plymouth inhabitants owned relatively small allotments of land, the need for labor was particularly low. In contrast, Jamestown occupants owned massive plots of land and paid little attention to how close the community was. This is a prime manifestation of how the Jamestown squatters were willing to set aside anything to further advance their goal of turning a profit. With larger amounts of land, a more sizable workforce is required; henceforth the considerably greater number of children per family and greater number of slaves. In essence, the economic structures of Plymouth and Jamestown vary greatly and established two distinct regions of

The two colonies, Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation were started by two English settlers William Bradford and John Smith. Notably, both leaders sought the same vision of beginning a colony in the New World. However, these two colonies differentiated in their motives to start the colony and also the repercussions that followed.

Another difference was that in Jamestown everyone just cared about making money. Everyone cared for themselves and not really anyone else. Not like Plymouth their religion was Puritan and they stay together. They care for each other, not like James town every man for themselves basically. Plymouth People have families that they cared about and really work together well not like James town.

“Had we been as free from all sins as gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints, but our President would never have been admitted for engrossing to his private, oatmeal sack, oil, aqua vitae, beef, eggs or what not-” This is just a small description of what both Jamestown and Plymouth plantation endured. While the men on the boat headed to Jamestown were heading to their destination solely for money, the Plymouth plantation had people who were their because of religious reasons, such as the Puritan colonsits. Also, the men on the boat headed to Jamestown were uncooperative, while Puritan colonists from the Plymouth plantation worked together.

Jamestown and Plymouth plantation had several differences since they were both in a set of different times so they each had different reasons for moving there. Jamestown idea of moving was to get rich but, they had to fend for themselves so everyone. Who did move there had to protect themselves so, life wasn't any easier since. The fact that they didn't have really good survival skills didn't help their chances of surviving.

Similarities and Differences of Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation Many people were on an expedition to the New World of a better life. These individuals sought a new start in the Colonies rather than in Britain. John Smith wrote about his experience in Jamestown and William Bradford wrote it on Plymouth Plantation. These two places were alike, but they also had their differences.

While William Bradford wrote the story in the 1st person and he was humble and he believed in predestination (Bradford). John Smith was elected president for a short period of time (Smith) while William Bradford was elected governor for life (Bradford). In Jamestown it was literally like every man for themselves because no one cared about anyone else but themselves just how Smith was himself (Smith). Bradford wanted everyone to love each other and care for one another just how Bradford was (Bradford). Also Smith only brought men with him and left the women and children who knows where (Smith). Bradford had the families and everyone was equal (Smith). The similarities that both of the towns had been that they were both journals of the writers. The writers, both came from a part of England. They also went through the starvation times and they had a lot of deaths as