Pennsylvania,1682, by William Penn
Roanoke Colony, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, preceded Jamestown but it disappeared. Had it survived it would have been the first English colony.
The Virginia Stock Company was created to settle the colony that would be named Jamestown when it was founded.
In 1607, men started a colony in Jamestown. With their minds only on gold, they searched and searched, but eventually there supplies ran out and about a third of the population was left. John Smith managed to bring them together with his "no work, no food" policy. He was elected leader, but a gunpowder explosion sent him to England for medical care.
The location of the colony was swampy and filled with malaria-carrying mosquitoes which made the colonists sick with fever. Others got sick from the river water. And the London Company incorrectly told the settlers that the colony would be rich in gold. They spent their days searching for gold rather than building houses and growing food.
If you count Roanoke as the first colony, then, it would be Jamestown. If you count Jamestown as the first, then it would be Plymouth.
Jamestown was the first settlement in what became Virginia (named in honor of the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth) and Plymouth was the first settlement in what would become the Massachusetts Bay colony.
The Pilgrims settled in what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts. Eventually the settlement would be considered the colony of Massachusetts.
The first major colony was Vagina, the heart of it at the time was Jamestown
I will give you a suggestion to help you. Make a Venn diagram for your comparison and contrast of the colonies. With it laid out that way you can write the essay. I would also suggest you start with Jamestown since they came in 1607 and Plymouth happens in 1620. You could do a paragraph or two on Jamestown explaining why they came to Virginia and what happened. Then, move to Plymouth and explore how their colony was set up and why. Then, compare the two, and finally contrast them. I would end the essay with a summary putting it all together. A good opening line for your essay is " the purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Jamestown and Plymouth " you can use this line with just about anything you write and it will help focus your thinking for your essay.
Jamestown was England's first settlement in what would become Virginia.
Pennsylvania,1682, by William Penn
a colony that was formed to spread christianity and practice free religion !(:
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Before departing for what would become the Plymouth colony, the Scrooby separatists first lived for sometime in the Netherlands.
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Roanoke Colony, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, preceded Jamestown but it disappeared. Had it survived it would have been the first English colony.