Indira Yuldasheva August 19, 2016 Homework #1
a)
Push (away from England) factors
Pull (to America) factors
England was prospering economically as a result of the booming wool industry until 1550, when a devastating depression ran thousands of workers involved with the wool industry out of their jobs. Subsequently, those who were hungry started eating whatever they could find. A landlord wrote in 1623 of people commonly eating dog meat (1D3).
By sending England’s vagabonds to natural resource-rich America, the poor can find jobs such as working in mines or planting sugar cane, which could solve England’s unemployment problem (ID4).
While the wool industry was experiencing a severe depression, England’s population was rising exponentially …show more content…
Captain John Smith was a leader of Virginia until he returned to England in 1609, he was an adventurer, colonizer, explorer, author, and mapmaker (2A1). In Smith’s description of Virginia without his direction, he was sure to emphasize the hopelessness of the settlers, “...within six months after Captain Smith’s departure there remained not past sixty men, women, and children, most miserable and poor creatures…” (2A1). This shows that Virginia was lacking the strong leadership they once had, which is vital to the success of a colony. There was also corruption in the colony, “As for our hogs, hens, goats, sheep, horses, and what lived, our commanders, officers, and savages daily consumed them” (2A1). William Bradford, the leader of Plymouth, was more devoted to ensuring the prosperity of his colony. In his accounts, Bradford described the hardships of living in Massachusetts, but he was determined to make it work, “It was answered that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages. It was granted the dangers were great, but not desperate. The difficulties were many, but not invincible...And all of them, through the help of God, ... might either be borne or overcome” (3A1).While Massachusetts under the leadership of Bradford still had problems, they had a clearly passionate leader to guide his people and prevent them from mutiny. This contrast in the presence of capable leaders in Virginia and Massachusetts affected the way each colony would deal with
a)
Push (away from England) factors
Pull (to America) factors
England was prospering economically as a result of the booming wool industry until 1550, when a devastating depression ran thousands of workers involved with the wool industry out of their jobs. Subsequently, those who were hungry started eating whatever they could find. A landlord wrote in 1623 of people commonly eating dog meat (1D3).
By sending England’s vagabonds to natural resource-rich America, the poor can find jobs such as working in mines or planting sugar cane, which could solve England’s unemployment problem (ID4).
While the wool industry was experiencing a severe depression, England’s population was rising exponentially …show more content…
Captain John Smith was a leader of Virginia until he returned to England in 1609, he was an adventurer, colonizer, explorer, author, and mapmaker (2A1). In Smith’s description of Virginia without his direction, he was sure to emphasize the hopelessness of the settlers, “...within six months after Captain Smith’s departure there remained not past sixty men, women, and children, most miserable and poor creatures…” (2A1). This shows that Virginia was lacking the strong leadership they once had, which is vital to the success of a colony. There was also corruption in the colony, “As for our hogs, hens, goats, sheep, horses, and what lived, our commanders, officers, and savages daily consumed them” (2A1). William Bradford, the leader of Plymouth, was more devoted to ensuring the prosperity of his colony. In his accounts, Bradford described the hardships of living in Massachusetts, but he was determined to make it work, “It was answered that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages. It was granted the dangers were great, but not desperate. The difficulties were many, but not invincible...And all of them, through the help of God, ... might either be borne or overcome” (3A1).While Massachusetts under the leadership of Bradford still had problems, they had a clearly passionate leader to guide his people and prevent them from mutiny. This contrast in the presence of capable leaders in Virginia and Massachusetts affected the way each colony would deal with