John Winthrop was looked upon by many of the colonists while he was governor because he gave himself the image of being equal and fair. Winthrop has this “godly” image for the colonists and he promotes it a lot; John looked up to Thomas Dudley because he had a great amount of respect and took part into helping his servants which gave Winthrop more reason to be all good. Almost every colonist liked the idea of Winthrop being a leader because of what he has experienced and the amount of confidence he has towards himself. John was indeed very into his puritan religion and had a very well rounded mentality on how he could best get his way with persuasion instead of making himself look like he has all the power and punishment.…
Captain John Smith was born in 1580 in Willoughby, England and left home at the age of 16. Smith leaving at a young age meant he had very little education. He was later captured into slavery in 1602. Smith was able to escape and went back to England around…
wrote a pamphlet to the people in England and told about all the good things…
William Bradford and John Smith, two different guys but at the same time accomplished many things throughout their lives. They were similar in a couple ways but there were also things that distinguish them. Both, John Smith’s persuasive pamphlet and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation present a different picture of the same pre-colonial land of New England. In addition, they established colonies and through their writings, they hoped to attract more settlers with similar cases.…
Separatist. A person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church. 20,000 separatists left England to go to the new land which would later be called America, New England. This migration is also known as the Great Migration due to the 80,000 people total who left England for a journey to the new world. John Smith as well as William Bradford were both leaders bringing a group of Separatists to have a new and improved life. John Smith was an adventurous leader who established the first successful English Colony in North America. Bradford was the son of a farmer in Yorkshire, England who disagreed with the Church of England’s teachings, so he joined a Separatist group and led them to America. Both of these leaders intended…
Captain John Smith, an explorer of England, New England’s coast, and the Chesapeake Bay was an energetic man in search of becoming a gentleman and colonizing America. In April 1606 John Smith was named as one of the twelve council members of the colony in Virginia. His vision for Virginia was to be prosperous, profitable, and peaceful; though it was going to be a hard task for the settlers were unskilled and didn’t expect to work, the Indians also had their own cultures.…
John Smith and William Bradford were two extremely different people who both established colonies in the new world. However, both men were similar in certain aspects. They were similar in their faith, biases, and position. They were different in their personality, treatment of others, and purpose.…
Journeys to a new world were long and difficult for both captain John Smith and his men, and for William Bradford and his people. Neither of them knew what was lying ahead and what they would have to face and overcome. Both ships traveled to the New World looking for new opportunities. They settled naming their cities Jamestown, from John Smith, and Plymouth Plantation from William Bradford. The two had many differences, but also some similarities.…
In both Columbus’s and Smith’s writings, over stating how plentiful the land is common. For example, they name countless types of small and large game as well as mention how often they can go fishing. The two also emphasis how fertile the ground is with endless types of grain, seeds, fruit, flowers, berries and anything you plant will grow. They both mention how easy the Indians can be handled as well. Columbus and Smith do not forget to include the main points for colonization either. Water access, God, and land are the main advantages people look for when colonizing or relocating even today. They assure the people land and food to live, but also touch on converting these savages to God. They almost guilt trip the people in England by…
John Smith and William Bradford are both explorers that came to the New World in hopes of a better life. There are many comparisons and contrasts to be made between the two. You can elict from their writing styles that in both writers’ works, their purpose is to inform and persuade. Both of their stories began the same, entering the New World as callow foreigners trying to start a colony while fighting off starvation, disease, and Native American (or ”savages” as John Smith calls them) attacks. However, John Smith’s target audience was current English settlers, trying to persuade them to come and join him in the New World. While, William Bradford’s audience was the future generation, making sure that they don’t make the same mistakes that he did in his voyage.…
One of the most important members of the Jamestown colony was John Smith. However, unlike the many nobleman who made this voyage to find riches and fame, Smith (who was also interested in gold and fame) truly cared about his fellow comrades. He was loud and outspoken, and people listened to him. The leaders of the voyage were afraid that a rebellion would start, and the noblemen would get into a fight with the common…
styles. One of Captain John Smith's main objectives was to convince those people that were still in England that the New World was not a paradise with gold waiting to be dug up at every turn. He then, likely dramatized some of the accounts to portray his point more successfully. On the other hand, William Bradford simply was recording the history of his colony without any pomp.…
Coming into the Americas with no or very little knowledge, can be difficult for those who were immigrants who happened to be John Smith and William Bradford in this situation. They both said to have faced a hardship voyage through the Atlantic Ocean, but for them it was all worth it since they would be arriving in a land that has no leadership and they were ready to take upon that position. They believed that life would be easy for them in the new world, but eventually they faced a storm of reality. Smith and Bradford came to the New World with different ideas in mind such as their reasons, attitude, and lifestyle. Both coming from the same region, they compared in difficulties such as dying of starvation and encountering Native Americans.…
John Smith was very full of him self, he thought of himself as a hero. In “General History of Virginia” he exaggerated things to make him look good. For Kevin Plvan…
There were several different classes of people who settled in the colonies of North America. They all experienced hardships along the way, though some experiences were milder than others. One perspective of someone who had a decent experience, was William Bradford. He was one of the leaders among the group of religious, freedom-seeking people, called Pilgrims, who arrived in America on the Mayflower. Their trip was not as smooth as it seemed though. Their ship had gotten off-course several times, as a result of the violent storms that took place. Consequently, in spite of the patent (which had originally granted them to settle in Virginia), they ended up settling their colony in what they called Plymouth (Massachusetts). This lead to a series of conflicts between the group of land-seeking people and the religious people. The land-seeking people argued that they were not bound by the terms of the patent, and thus no one had the power to control them. As a compromise, Bradford and the other leaders created an agreement called the Mayflower Compact, which stated that members of the colony had to form a civic body politic, and obey by the laws for the good of the colony. Bradford later went on become governor of the Plymouth Colony. Another perspective, is of Olaudah Equiano, who served as an African slave and came to the America not by choice, but by force. Born in Africa to a village chief, Equiano was suppose to follow in his father’s footsteps. However, at age 11 he was kidnapped and loaded into a crowded slave ship with inhumane conditions. After barely surviving the poor conditions of the trip, Equiano was first taken to the Barbados, and then to Virginia to work in a plantation. Less than a month later, he was sold to an English naval officer. After traveling the world as the man’s servant for seven years, he was fortunate to have been able to buy his way out of slavery. His fate was lucky, compared to others who would, along with their children, never know…