The struggle to survive difficulties of the New World. Many British colonists shared a common interest to migrate to a new land. While some differences between Jamestown and Plymouth are that the people of Jamestown came to America to make money and the people of the Plymouth plantation came to America for religious reasons but, one similarity they have is that they both traveled to America for a fresh start.
The English people left Europe for a new chance to make money, have the opportunity to build their own government and have freedom. The situations on the boat on the way to the new land weren’t as different as Europe because only the captain would have control of all the food. The captain kept lots of food for himself and the little amount …show more content…
The Plymouth people were puritans and they wanted to “purify” the Catholicism of England. The puritans believed in predestination which is believing that everyone had their life planned out. So they left to the new land to make their own beliefs and not be judged. As soon as they arrived to the new land the Indians were there waiting and the colonists had their muskets ready. After building their houses they built small cottages for their habitation because of all the sickness and cold weather of winter. “In these hard and difficult beginnings they found some discontents and murmurings arise amongst some, and mutinous speeches and carriages in other; but they were soon quelled and overcome by the wisdom, patience, and just and equal carriage of things, by the Governor and better part, which clave faithfully together in the main.” (Bradford 15) As it states in the quote the first few winters were a very hard time for the colonists and not very many survived. But they did have a government and William Bradford was the governor. He was the one who wrote the Plymouth plantation and he started in 1630 and stopped writing in 1650. William was also the one that added the Mayflower passenger list. William Bradford died on
The English people left Europe for a new chance to make money, have the opportunity to build their own government and have freedom. The situations on the boat on the way to the new land weren’t as different as Europe because only the captain would have control of all the food. The captain kept lots of food for himself and the little amount …show more content…
The Plymouth people were puritans and they wanted to “purify” the Catholicism of England. The puritans believed in predestination which is believing that everyone had their life planned out. So they left to the new land to make their own beliefs and not be judged. As soon as they arrived to the new land the Indians were there waiting and the colonists had their muskets ready. After building their houses they built small cottages for their habitation because of all the sickness and cold weather of winter. “In these hard and difficult beginnings they found some discontents and murmurings arise amongst some, and mutinous speeches and carriages in other; but they were soon quelled and overcome by the wisdom, patience, and just and equal carriage of things, by the Governor and better part, which clave faithfully together in the main.” (Bradford 15) As it states in the quote the first few winters were a very hard time for the colonists and not very many survived. But they did have a government and William Bradford was the governor. He was the one who wrote the Plymouth plantation and he started in 1630 and stopped writing in 1650. William was also the one that added the Mayflower passenger list. William Bradford died on