“ We did not come to fear the future. We came to shape it”(said by Barack Obama). This quote could not fit any better for these two colonies. Both, Jamestown and Plymouth, came to the ‘new world’ to create a better future for themselves as individuals and a society. Of course, both were very different in many ways, from where they landed to who came. What was truly was different, but similar at the same time, was the their encounters in the ‘new world’. The Jamestown colony came over from England to take the riches here. The British people heard about the sights of gold and silver in this land. When they got here they saw vast, mineral rich land here and thought of all the tobacco they could grow and the fortune that would come in the industry. The colony was mostly of men were to preoccupied with their hopes and dreams of riches that they drove straight into starvation. “...considered the cause and reason which was this: While the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered by a daily proportion of biscuits which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for money, sassafras, furs, or love. But when they departed, there remained neither tavern, beer-house, nor place of relief, but the common kettle.”(p.3, Smith) The colonists were so preoccupied with trading that they didn't realize the food supply shorten to the point there was scarce remains. A lot of people died because of this. Not only that, but they were also uncooperative and full of greed that it only made matters worse. On the other hand, we have the Plymouth colony, whose people came for religious reasons. After going against the English church, these people decided to run away from the country and find a place where they can preach and worship in peace, that being the soon to be America. “Being thus arrived in the good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.”(p.8, Bradford) Like the Jamestown colony, they encountered starvation, but only because of the harsh winter they sailed into. They also encountered, with a bloody welcome from the natives. Even after that they survived by working together and keeping their hopes that God was with them as high
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These two colonies had a lot of differences and the same amount of similarities that made them survive the ‘new world’. They shaped the way our country is today, Jamestown showed us the agricultural growth and massive amount of trade goods we have here to the religious freedom, among other rights, we have from the Plymouth’s reason to come over from England. If I had to choose which colony I would want to stay with it would be Plymouth. For the way they worked through the tough times, from starvation to Indians attacking and the harsh winter, and the reason as to why they came over is something I admire. These are the colonies that helped create the nation, we have today, and without them this may not have become the United States of
These two colonies had a lot of differences and the same amount of similarities that made them survive the ‘new world’. They shaped the way our country is today, Jamestown showed us the agricultural growth and massive amount of trade goods we have here to the religious freedom, among other rights, we have from the Plymouth’s reason to come over from England. If I had to choose which colony I would want to stay with it would be Plymouth. For the way they worked through the tough times, from starvation to Indians attacking and the harsh winter, and the reason as to why they came over is something I admire. These are the colonies that helped create the nation, we have today, and without them this may not have become the United States of