Comparing Jamestown And Plymouth Colony

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Traveling aboard the Susan Constant 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 in a region that they decided to name Jamestown after one of the kings of Britain, known as King James I. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower which landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. Jamestown and Plymouth were the two original colonies that settled in America, although these two colonies came to America about the same point of time they didn’t have the similar reasons for why to head out to the new land. Both these colonies had many similarities as well as many differences.
Despite the regional settlement of both colonies were around the same place as Virginia was the only South of Massachusetts, yet the conductions for both colonies

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