Jamestown and Plymouth were the first two successful English colonies in North America. Jamestown was established in 1607 and Plymouth in 1620. Jamestown and Plymouth had many similarities. For example they both had some sort of government in some way. Jamestown had the first legislative assembly among the Western Hemisphere in 1619. This would later be called the‚ “House of Burgesses.” This served as a good model for many law making bodies in the U.S. Plymouth had a similar government. Their
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Europeans settled in is now known as Virginia. It’s noteworthy because Jamestown had the same story as Roanoke. They were both attempts for the English to settle but both mysteriously disappeared‚ and both weren’t successful. Before Jamestown and Plymouth rock there was Roanoke. John White sets out on sail to look for this place to colonize. However‚ he did not know that there were already a group of Native Americans living there‚ the carers of the land. The peculiar part was that the communication
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A witch craze swept the small Puritan community of Salem Village‚ Massachusetts in 1692. It began when a group of girls gathered in the evenings in the home of Reverend Parris to listen to stories told by one of his slaves‚ Tituba. They also played fortune-telling games‚ which were strictly forbidden by the Puritans. One night‚ while trying to see the faces of their future husbands in an egg white dropped in a glass of water‚ one girl believed she saw the shape of a coffin. Soon after‚ the girls
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culture and tradition. There are so many ways the stories‚ “History of Virginia” and‚ “Of Plymouth Plantation” make today what we are and what the world’s community is. Between these two stories there are so many differences and similarities. In this essay I will compare and contrast both stories and talk about what happened. These two stories both take place in two different colonies; Jamestown and Plymouth. In the story‚ “History of Virginia” there are many different parts to the story. The story
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The colonists who came to the New World all have a similar quality. They all used slavery in one way or another to achieve their goals. The colonists would depend on other people or groups in order to sustain a suitable lifestyle the choose. This is why so many colonists thought that working the slaves and indentured servants and giving them very austere living conditions was morally correct. Also‚ the government is a Democracy so since the majority of the people are colonists‚ the government
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groups founded two very different colonies. The first to be colonized was the settlement of Jamestown‚ located on the Chesapeake Bay which is in present day Virginia. Just over a decade later the colony of Plymouth was founded on what is now known as Cape Cod‚ Massachusetts. Though both the Massachusetts Bay colony and the Jamestown colony were established in a similar historical timeframe‚ they developed distinctly different social views regarding the future‚ economic status‚ and political successes.
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place in 1620‚ and the people aboard the ship are religious refugees fleeing from protestant England. They wanted to found a Calvinist colony where they would not be persecuted for following their religion. In addition‚ when the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth and afterward survived the
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Thomas Morton vs William Bradford and the View of the Native Americans To begin‚ William Bradford was the leader of Plymouth‚ which was one of the earliest colonial settlements in the United States. Thomas Morton was there around the same time; however he was just a settler. Bradford became very popular throughout the colony and demonstrated his talents when writing “Of Plymouth Plantation”. Morton was known for his pieces‚ “New English Canaan” and “Manners and Customs of the Indians”. Both authors
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1607. The Virginia Company of London‚ a joint-stock firm‚ commissioned it. The Jamestown colonists had increased pressure to strike it rich‚ because of the threat of abandonment in the wilderness. The first settlement in the New England region was Plymouth‚ which was founded 13 years later in 1620. It too struck an agreement with the Virginia Company‚ but steered far off course‚ and ended up far away from the Virginia Company’s jurisdiction. It contained Seperatists‚ who as their name denotes‚ wanted
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Throughout history there has been the misconception that early Europeans were the first to settle in North America‚ however Native Americans had inhabited the land for hundreds‚ even thousands of years‚ long before it was conquered and settled. When Christopher Columbus first discovered the ‘New World’ he also found that land had around two million inhabitants. He thought he had uncovered a new route to the East‚ so he mistakenly called these people ‘Indians’. Within the next hundred years‚ Europeans
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