Jamestown was first built in the year 1607 with the purpose of establishing a colony that would send back supplies and gold. Jamestown started to collapse very soon after its creation because of mosquitos that carried disease and the brackish water that leaked into their water supply. They decided to trade with the Indians in order to survive, but most of the Indians realized it would be easier to kill them or let them die out. In 1608 a man by the name of John Smith took control of the colony and stated that if a man did not work, he would not eat. Smith was then captured by the Indians and as soon as he was about to be killed, Pocahontas saved him. Pocahontas helped the English establish peaceful terms with the Indians, but she was then captured and used as a bargaining chip by the English. A year later John Rolfe arrived from England with tobacco, this crop effectively saved Jamestown.…
Jamestown was the first English settlement in North America. John Smith played a huge role in Jamestown and the early settlers faced lots of hardships. Slavery changed the economy and farming. The House of Burgesses was the first government body in the colonies.…
Pocahontas saved John Smith's life,So clearly Pocahontas didn't save John Smith’s life.John Smith lied about Pocahontas saving him since she was a big deal “FAMOUS”. She was a well known person making him feel that if he added her to one of his documents it would make him well known because he spoke about someone that was “famous”.…
After the New World was discovered in the sixteenth century, England began a campaign to colonize what is now the East coast of the United States. In 1607, John Smith arrived in the New World and began an English colony called Jamestown. A little more than ten years later, in 1620, William Bradford was the governor of Plymouth, another colony. You would be hard pressed to find another example in history where two very different men accomplished the same goal. One man was a veteran soldier and a daring adventurer, while the other was the leader of a new denomination of Christianity, and yet both ended up governing colonies. The best way to see the difference between these two men is to examine their writings about the New World. Their language, style, and even point of view illustrate the difference between the two. Both, however, had a striking similarity, and it was that similarity which led to each one’s success.…
Jedediah Smith was a clerk, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the North American West and the Southwest during the early 19th century. After 75 years of obscurity, following his death, Smith was rediscovered, as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile (32 km)-wide South Pass, as the dominant point of crossing the Continental Divide, for pioneers on the Oregon Trail. Coming from a modest family background, Smith traveled to St. Louis and joined William H Ashley and Andrew Henry’s fur trading company in 1822. Smith led the first documented exploration from the Salt Lake frontier to the Colorado River. From there, Smith's party became the first white Americans to cross the Mojave Desert into California.…
In the early days of the Mormon Church, founded by Joseph Smith between 1820 and 1830, periods of strife and tension would follow the early members of the church around the entire United States. Beginning in the East, Joseph Smith would find it difficult to find a safe haven for the organization and headquartering of the Church of Christ. Beginning in Fayette, New York in 1830, Smith 's mission was to continue the original Church of Jesus Christ that was no longer on Earth. In 1823, Smith would claim that an angel directed him to a buried book written on golden plates containing the religious…
John Smith and his soldiers encountered many difficulties on the new land. On their five month long journey, the Englishmen arrived extremely weak and sick, and there was no food or shelter for them; they faced many challenges trying to survive on the new land. Smith and his soldiers missed out on planting season, so they had to steal from the Indians to restrain their hunger. Instead, they were on sea for five months; therefore, “lost opportunity of the time and season to plant by the unskillful presumption of our ignorant transporters.”(p. 84) The voyage to the new land made smith gain knowledge on how to plan for future voyages. The Englishmen were not expecting this much hard work to survive on the new land.…
Journeys to a new world were long and difficult for both captain John Smith and his men, and for William Bradford and his people. Neither of them knew what was lying ahead and what they would have to face and overcome. Both ships traveled to the New World looking for new opportunities. They settled naming their cities Jamestown, from John Smith, and Plymouth Plantation from William Bradford. The two had many differences, but also some similarities.…
Captain Jahn Smith and Governor William Bradford were two influental leaders in the New World during the early 1600s. They both established a colony and they attempted to attract settlers with writings. Their writings were intended for different audiences and they both had different purposes. John Smith’s writings were intended to bring people to the new world. He wrote a pamphlet to the people in England and told about all the good things about New England. In his pamphlet he tried to persuade people to join him in the new land and how he promised the New England was better than England. John Smith's audience was intended for people from England, and possible settlers.Though,William Bradford's writings were intended for different audiences and he had a different purpose than John Smith. William Bradford's audience was intended for the future generation. He wrote a diary about his actual experiences in Colonial America,he discussed in his diary about the many hardships he faced. Both wrote of their experiences in America,were Europeans,and desired to settle the land. John Smith and William Bradford were two important people who led to the settlement in America. They were fine leaders who made survival possible on this new land. They created relationships with the natives and won and lost some with their own men. They led their men across the ocean to settle on lands that were never previously settled by Europeans. They had all of their crew adapt to the new land and form relationships with the natives.If it was not for these two men's great leadership skills, their crews would have died and America would not be the same.Without the decisions made by Smith and Bradford, nobody would have survived in the New World. They took control and found food and shelter. They also made sure all their sick were taken care of when nobody really wanted to do this job. Smith and Bradford made it possible to make a small colony on a land they have never seen.These men…
My grandfather William Seward Jackson (1879-1958) was a jack of all trades and I stayed in the sun many a day fetching and carrying for him. He taught me the name of all of the tools. He even had a special name for me, "monkey." William Seward Jackson a hardworking man who according to his granddaughter was very accomplished. Granddad was a well sought-after carpenter, a leather craftsman who made saddles, shoes, belts, aprons, and anything that had to do with leather. He also was a sharpshooter and taught the men of Fayette how to shoot, including the KKK who came to kill him against the sheriff's advice, after he tore up Mr. McNabb’s grocery store, when his mother was insulted in the store by Mr. McNabb.…
Beth Johnson wrote a story called “Joe Davis: A Cool Man,” which talks about how a man named Joe Davis and how he is committed to all his actions. Most of his actions are not the best, or the smartest but he was committed to what he started. Starting something and following through and finishing is very hard and tedious, but if you are committed then any task is possible. Watching what Joe has accomplished, good or bad, shows the commitment that one needs to finish any task that comes their way.…
family was getting sick of exhaustion from working on the farm. He kept asking his mother why…
Coming into the Americas with no or very little knowledge, can be difficult for those who were immigrants who happened to be John Smith and William Bradford in this situation. They both said to have faced a hardship voyage through the Atlantic Ocean, but for them it was all worth it since they would be arriving in a land that has no leadership and they were ready to take upon that position. They believed that life would be easy for them in the new world, but eventually they faced a storm of reality. Smith and Bradford came to the New World with different ideas in mind such as their reasons, attitude, and lifestyle. Both coming from the same region, they compared in difficulties such as dying of starvation and encountering Native Americans.…
Back in the 1700’s there was a whole lot of important stuff going on, a bunch of colonies were becoming states, France was chopping people’s heads off1, and Isaac Newton just figured out about gravity and was dropping that on the science world2. Ben Franklin was busy being brilliant making glasses and playing with lightening3. Charles Darwin was evolving some big ideas as he was floating around the Galapagos Islands4.…
The narrator's first job was working as a porter for a man named, Mr. Hoffman. During the time he was working here, he always thought that Mr. Hoffman and his wife performed in a manner to disintegrate him and that they were just out to destroy him. One day, he came to a conclusion and realization that, he had "grossly misread the motives and attitudes of Mr. Hoffman and his wife" (888). He apprehended that they did indeed care about him keeping his job even after he had not shown up for three days. He knew that any other white owner would have told him to go somewhere else to work. After an embarrassing lie, he told the owner, he finally quit his job and searched for a new job as a dishwasher.…