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Compare And Contrast Jamestown Vs Plymouth

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Jamestown vs Plymouth We’ve been on this boat for months now, searching and hoping to see the first sign of the new world. We have struggled and gone through a lot of hardships many having to do with the weather, starvation, no clean water and shortness of supplies. My experience in this ship has been horrible we are not able to shower and we are running low on food. People are starving and becoming ill. Many of our men are dying from theses cause. Every other day I watch as men die. Jamestown's captain was John Smith which was a main cause for some of the hardships his people experienced. John Smith was a very selfish greedy man that only cared to make himself look like he was a great person. “To Captain Smith, who by his own example, …show more content…

Once they set sail for this business venture the people had many hardships including harsh winters, lack of fresh water, the spread of diseases, and they were constantly being attacked by the Algonquin Indians. “But now was all our provisions spent, the sturgeon gone, all help abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the savages.” (John Smith 5) In this quote you can get a sense of frustration and anger the people from Jamestown experienced after being on this voyage for so long and getting surprise attacks and generally everything that they were going through. After leaving Jamestown they never …show more content…

In the Struggle for Jamestown, John Smith being the writer portrays himself as being a great leader, selfishly and speaks of himself in third person. In Plymouth Plantation William Bradford doesn’t take all credit and gives it to God in a way and he speaks of himself in 1st person. Although these are two different stories they do have many similarities especially with the problems that came up during the time of the voyages, some being starvation, lack of many things, problems with the weather, problems with the ship, and losing men in result of these

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&&“Love and Hate in Jamestown” is a book that tells the story of the U.S.’s first colony in the eyes of the American legend John Smith and through the accounts of the other settlers. The book starts with a small history lesson and eventually ties it in with John Smith, a soldier who eventually becomes a leader among the men in Jamestown. As we read, there is more detail to whom Smith is; where he came from, a small farm in London; what he went through, he became a soldier fighting in foreign lands with the Turks and getting caught; his family, the battles with his father that kept Smith home as an archer. Moreover, Smiths’ story rolls over to how he was able to go to Virginia; the colony in Virginia started out as a business investment until it was royal property in the 1620’s. Now, while going to

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The first reason so many colonists died in Jamestown was because of the lack of food, which led to starvation. In Doc. B in the DBQ, Jamestown suffered a drought from 1605-1612. This drought led to no water which led to the lack of fish(Blanton 55).Jamestown also made a reason for the lack of fish, they created a toilet system where they dumped their waste in the river, and the waste did not wash out.

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This showed that the years 1600-1610 was a period of drought in Jamestown. With no water, life in Jamestown was scary, and caused problems with Natives as both were trying to stay alive. Colonists in Jamestown died because of the drought, with no water, colonists could not grow food, so they starved at one point. The second reason Jamestown colonists died was because of lack of skills.

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The 3 main circumstances that caused a majority of English colonists at Jamestown to lose their lives were the environment, the social and religious conflicts with the Natives, and the lack of survival skills. The environment the colonist chose to settle in wasn’t

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So many colonist died because of disease/ warship, lack of crops/ starvation, and non-cleaned water. As the English Colonist went to Jamestown there were many things that came along as they were settling at Jamestown and caused death to take place. The English Colonists went to Jamestown around 1607,1608,1609, and 1610. The people that went to Jamestown is a bunch of the English Colonists. In Jamestown the conflicts they had were a salt water intrusion, lack of crops/ starvation, Spanish warship and disease.

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“ ‘And now famine beginning to look ghastly and pale in every face that nothing was spared to maintain life and to do those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpse out of graves and to eat them, and some have licked up the blood which hath fallen from their weak fellows’ “, reads a firsthand account from George Percy who was an eyewitness of cannibalism in Jamestown, during the “Starving Time” in 1609-1610. In the spring of May 1607, three English ships carried about 110 Englishmen who sailed to the mouth of a substantial bay on the coast of Virginia known as the Chesapeake Bay. Additionally, this was the first permanent English colony/settlement in the New World, United States. However, little did they know that the first year

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While both settlers were met with Natives of the new land, each had two profound differences as to how they went about communicating and living with them. In order to best answer the question that still is of relevance to today’s nation, “Why did Plymouth, rather than Jamestown, earn pride of

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The common agreement to what happened at Jamestown is the near Native American tribe, the Powhatans, were cruel, vial, and refused to help the struggling English who would almost die out because of malnourishment. Though the Powhatans refused to feed the malnourished English people, even with the English leader John Smith begging for help, the Indians felt threatened by the English because of their presence, weapons, and John Smiths threats. Therefore, the Powhatans cut off ties with the English for the fear of starting violence (Doc G). The “starving time” had nothing to do with Powhatans lack of help and originated in the lack of skill the English people had and the violent treatment to the Powhatans. The English were left with little experience

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All is well for the native relationship, until John Smith, who had set up a firm trade between settlers and colonist, had returned to England in 1609. In document C it tells of “120 men stationed near the falls the Indians kill ‘neere halfe’”, and within the same month, “of 100 men at Nansemond Indians kill 50”. Besides physically killing, the natives also refused to give settlers food or water or help in any way, which led colonist to starvation. Jamestown could have had a much smoother start, if only they had a better relationship with native

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