Jamestown Compare And Contrast

The Early Colonial Life is important in our U.S. history because of where we, as American citizens, stand now. The Colonial Life was the start of America’s establishment. Though many attempts were made to overcome this huge obstacle of starting life in America, it didn’t stop the settlers. Despite the fact that it wasn’t easy for these first settlers to establish the now 50 states that make up America; their determination got them to where we stand now. Easy wouldn’t be in the vocabulary of the first settlers that took action to start the new settlement of Plymouth and Jamestown, nor the struggles they were faced with in Chesapeake, or the consequences that took place in Bacon’s Rebellion. Within a year, more than half the population …show more content…
As Governor Bradford of Plymouth stated "Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shown unto many, yea, in some sort, to our whole Nation" (Jamestown and Plymouth: Compare and Contrast).
This was the most important and main comparison between the two colonies. However, the main difference between the two was that Jamestown offered warm climate and fertile soil that brought them success in the long-run with tobacco plantations; where Plymouths wasn’t so lucky, its cold climate and rocky soil made it hard for farming, however, they managed to do so. They turned more towards lumbering, fishing, trade, and eventually …show more content…
This was important for them simply because it was the only thing that was keeping them on their feet. For the Native Americans, growing crops was the only thing they had ever known. Plantation and farms was holding up the financial growth of their newly found economy. With tobacco being such a huge success, it started becoming a demand; it made it the most important crop to have. The colonist relied of slave labor, because of the agriculture economy that was being made (Boundless: Chesapeake Slavery). The cash crops, too, was used for trade and not for their food. In these hard times, being hungry wasn’t acknowledged. The only thing that was on those settler’s minds were starting the region and surviving in the region by becoming wealthy. Yet, arriving there, most didn’t know how to come about starting an agricultural economy. However, the ones in Jamestown eventually figured it out. In Plymouth the Native Americans gave them assistance, because of the way they got along so well (Nancy Fisher, Jamestown and Plymouth: Compare and