Jamestown v.s. New England
Aamir Khan
September, 2013
Period 7 AP History
Jamestown Colony vs New England Colony: Views from a Colonist
A colonist, Paul, remembers when he departed from the English empire to reside here in the
“New World”. He worked hard to cross the Atlantic Ocean aboard the Susan Constant but things did not get better. He struggled to survive in a harsh environment in our settlement, which was Jamestown Colony. But living conditions started to improve but then they went way down and he urged himself to leave and find a better place. He took a long journey with his wife and a couple friends and ended up in a colony which was named New England. Live for him became much easier because of the improved supply of food, water, and shelter. But these things did not just magically appear in the area, they were earned. Because of the social ways of life in New England, consisting of hard work during tough times while incorporating the goal of settling there permanently, keeping family an important virtue, and the showing of cooperation and teamwork within themselves and others, New England would be a much desirable place to live in than to dwell in Jamestown Colony.
First of all, the Puritans (religion of the New England Colony settlers) were hard working people. It was difficult to get to where they were, but they successfully sailed to Plymouth Rock (Plymouth being the most important and known town of the colony). Unfortunately, almost half of the crew died during the voyage to the New World because of lack of supplies and terrible diseases such as scurvy. But right when the colonists landed in present-day Cape Cod, they got right to work with enthusiam and held on to one major goal: to survive! And unlike Jamestown, the Pilgrims already had a government issued before landing within the colony, centered around the Mayflower compact. When the Pilgrims came to America on the ship called the Mayflower, there were people of different political and religious beliefs. The
September, 2013
Period 7 AP History
Jamestown Colony vs New England Colony: Views from a Colonist
A colonist, Paul, remembers when he departed from the English empire to reside here in the
“New World”. He worked hard to cross the Atlantic Ocean aboard the Susan Constant but things did not get better. He struggled to survive in a harsh environment in our settlement, which was Jamestown Colony. But living conditions started to improve but then they went way down and he urged himself to leave and find a better place. He took a long journey with his wife and a couple friends and ended up in a colony which was named New England. Live for him became much easier because of the improved supply of food, water, and shelter. But these things did not just magically appear in the area, they were earned. Because of the social ways of life in New England, consisting of hard work during tough times while incorporating the goal of settling there permanently, keeping family an important virtue, and the showing of cooperation and teamwork within themselves and others, New England would be a much desirable place to live in than to dwell in Jamestown Colony.
First of all, the Puritans (religion of the New England Colony settlers) were hard working people. It was difficult to get to where they were, but they successfully sailed to Plymouth Rock (Plymouth being the most important and known town of the colony). Unfortunately, almost half of the crew died during the voyage to the New World because of lack of supplies and terrible diseases such as scurvy. But right when the colonists landed in present-day Cape Cod, they got right to work with enthusiam and held on to one major goal: to survive! And unlike Jamestown, the Pilgrims already had a government issued before landing within the colony, centered around the Mayflower compact. When the Pilgrims came to America on the ship called the Mayflower, there were people of different political and religious beliefs. The