Jamestown: Similarities And Differences

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Jamestown and the Plymouth had many differences but also had some things in common. Like [John smith] said ‘’ you don't work, you don't eat’’.

They both had many rules and beliefs that were strict. In this essay i will talk about both of the colonies and their similarities and differences.

On May 14, 1607, 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company established the very first English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export. Capt. John Smith was one of the people of that voyage. John Smith was born to a farming family in Willoughby, England, either late in 1579 or early 1580. When he was 16, he left home to become a soldier, fighting in Europe and the Middle

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