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Jamestown Colony Compare And Contrast

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be from Jamestown? Maybe you would like to know how it feels to be a pilgrim. Here, I will show you the differences and some similarities of the two groups of people. While one is based on religion and another on business, they have a lot of similarities. Of course you can’t expect many differences. In fact, some differences might lead to some similarities. Starting with the Jamestown Colony (JC), we have the captain John Smith. He was the one that was considered the “leader” of the colony. When he was able, he took a ship to the America’s. At this time it was still called the colonies. They traveled to a place in the colonies called Virginia. He was part of the JC when he got there and they …show more content…

One day, when adventuring, Smith got captured by Native Americans that still remained in the colonies. “Leading an expedition on the Chickahominy River, Captain Smith and his men are attacked by Indians, and Smith is taken prisoner.” (Smith 74). As he was captured, he was sure the Natives were going to execute (kill) him. This story of him being captured is the basis of the story Pocahontas. It is similar in the way that he was captured and Pocahontas was the chief's daughter. “Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them…” (Smith 74). When Smith tried to escape, the Natives found out. Smith, knowing he was going to die, threw down his weapons and surrendered. According to him, the Natives saw how Smith showed his leadership and confidence when he did this. Because of the way he surrendered, the Natives decided not to kill him. After a while he returned to Jamestown. There was no food for a few weeks in Jamestown. John Smith was named President of Jamestown after a …show more content…

With this colony, there is a few things they take seriously. William Bradford was part of this group. This group of people came to the colonies to make land and for religious reasons. Not all the the people in this group made it to the Americas. “But that which was most sad and lamentable was, that in two or three months time half of their company died, especially in January and February…” (Bradford 80). Most people know this group as the Pilgrims. Of course the Pilgrims as we know, had communications with the Natives. When the Pilgrims got to the Colonies, they wanted to share their beliefs and make a community. The Pilgrims believed in predestination. Predestination is described as when a person is born, their whole life is already determined. In example, god made you and decided what will happen to you and when it would happen. He also decided when it is that you would die and exactly how you will die. “...in a mighty storm, a lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seel of the ship, thrown into sea: but it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length. Yet he held his hold till he was with a boat hook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved.” (Bradford 80). The Pilgrims also loved to help each other. When everyone else was busy getting their own things and ignoring the sick, the ones from the PP

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Another man named John Smith had the same thing in mind, but to make money. These two leaders, both came from England and established two very different colonies. Many men and John Smith traveled from England to America so they could establish the colony of Jamestown. They left England to make money. John Smith is the leader of the men who moved to America was never really

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The Puritans sailed from England to Plymouth to express their religious beliefs somewhere where they would not be harassed. Bradford was passionate about God, like many of the Puritans that sailed to the New World. Historians can use the accounts of Bradford to understand more about Plymouth. Bradford’s views can be related to life in Plymouth by how he understood God and his belief in the colony. The Puritans sailed from England to Plymouth to express their religious beliefs somewhere where they would not be

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Being the first two well-known places in which the English would set out to colonize in 1607 and 1620, Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts hold very separate set of beliefs, standards, and outlooks on life then and the future to come. While paving the way for things such as slavery, taxes, ownership of land, inclusion of women, tobacco and government assemblies, John Smith and the people of Jamestown became a classical foundation for new life and economic growth for the new world that is, the United States. On the other hand, William Bradford and his people began to realize the intentions of the Church of England were unholy and had strayed away from God’s teachings from the Bible. With this in mind, the Pilgrims set on a voyage to the new world to seek religious freedom. As we know it, the Pilgrims sought for peace and a new way of living that was fair, just and free from religious corruptions.

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Since William Bradford was the leader of those English religious separatists, he experienced the same thing with his separatist members. In order to achieve their dream of building ideal churches, those separatists escaped from the place where they had lived with their friends and family for their whole life to an entire new world where they could possibly accomplish their dream. He must profoundly understand the emotion of those pilgrims. “But that which was most sad and lamentable was, that in two or three months’ time half of their company died, especially in January and February, being the depth of the winter, and wanting houses and other comforts; being infected with the scurvy and other diseases which this long voyage and their inaccommodate condition had brought upon them. So as there died some times two or three of a day in the foresaid time, that of 100 and odd persons, scarce fifty remained.”

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