succumbed to malaria and other diseases that were prevalent in their swampy home. The leaders of the colony were mainly aristocrats who did not know how to work and many of the workers did not want to work. An important member of the group was John Smith. Smith was one of the most important early leaders of the English colonies. His strong leadership of his fellow colonists enabled them to
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also explains how she could not save John Smith’s life because she was not allowed to be in some rituals of the tribe; nevertheless‚ in the movie‚ Pocahontas threw herself onto John Smith and told her father to let him live. Lastly‚ a very remarkable fact was the way in which John Smith got food and supplies. As the article explained‚ “[John Smith] was known to enter villages and put guns to heads of chiefs demanding food and supplies.” However‚ in the movie‚ John Smith did not place a gun onto heads
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Massachusetts was established in 1620 and Virginia was established in 1607. Virginia’s colony was Jamestown and Massachusetts was Salem and Boston. Virginia was located in the southern colony‚ it also offered land. Tobacco was a profitable crop‚ so John Rolfe took seeds and planted them in Virginia; because of this Virginia became an economic purpose. Virginia settled by men so Virginia dies out and this caused women to immigrate. Virginia was not a religious country and people ran away from Virginia
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in what is in current day known as the United States. The location of Jamestown was selected primarily for the fact that it provided a favorable defensive location against any other foreign powers that may have tried to gain control of the colony. John Smith‚ Robert Hunt along with others provided inspirational leadership for the colonists but even so starvation became a very apparent problem. The hostile relations with the local Native American people and a lack of any profitable exports only made
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Jamestown and Plymouth: Compare and Contrast Traveling aboard the Susan Constant‚ Godspeed and Discovery‚ 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place they named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later‚ 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies‚ English settlement in North America was born. LOCATION OF THE SETTLEMENTS Jamestown offered anchorage
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accustomed to their new surroundings. The settlers were in such misery in an atmosphere that was foreign to them compared to ways of life they were used to in England. With the colony heading toward disaster‚ the colonists were luckily saved by Captain John Smith‚ who whipped the colonists into shape by forcing them to work or else they didn’t eat. His efforts were rewarded with his kidnapping by the Powhatan Native American tribe who desired a more peaceful than harmful relationship with the Virginians
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Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation are two colonies but are very distinct from each other. John Smith and William Bradford came from England to explore the Americas‚ but each with their own intentions. They both had trouble coming here establishing their new colonies because survival was difficult. John Smith barely survived what he went through stating‚ “Such actions have ever since the world’s beginning been subject to such accidents‚ and everything of worth is found full of difficulties…”(Smith)
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interested in was finding gold‚ and they were starving because of it. They truly believed that the Native Americans would give them the food they needed while they searched for food. Oh‚ how they were wrong. A man named John Smith controlled them and told them to farm to survive. John Rolfe was the man who discovered Tobacco and knew how to export it. Soon everyone started to get rich off of this tobacco trade. The problem was it is a very labor intensive crop and called for a lot of work on the farm.
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grown in this settlement. Though‚ in 1611‚ John Rolfe saved what he could of the colony and started growing tobacco‚ a huge cash crop. Unlike New England‚ Chesapeake was more interested in profit. New England‚ filled with primarily Puritans but also included separatists and congregationalists‚ centered their daily life around the Church. Their goal when coming to America was to create a model for what was‚ in their mind‚ an ideal community. Moreover‚ John Winthrop‚ the leader of the migrating Puritans
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already settled there. With the use of tobacco‚ they transformed their economy. The demand for tobacco products in Europe was increasing‚ and the Virginians knew it. The tobacco rush soon swept over Virginia. The father of the tobacco industry‚ John Rolfe‚ became an economic savior in 1612‚ when he perfected methods of raising and curing the pungent weed. The colonists now focused most of their attention‚ concentration‚ and energy on planting this demanded crop. They had created one of the first
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