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Similarities And Differences Plymouth Plantation
1,028 wordsThe early colonists of America faced many hardships that were documented by two prominent men, John Smith and William Bradford. These historical accounts were Smiths The General History of Virginia and Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation. Smith describes his experiences of establishing the Jamestown Colony around 1607. Bradford's account of his settlement in 1620 describes the lives of the people as they traveled to and settled in Massachusetts. As the reader becomes more familiar with these two h...
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William Bradford John Smith
472 wordsJohn Smith and William Bradford's treatment towards the natives was obviously very different. This essay will discuss a couple of these differences in detail. John Smiths treatment towards the natives is extremely bad. In fact, he gets captured and almost killed by them. William Bradford on the other hand, treats them well and makes friends with the natives. As John Smith lands on what is later known as Virginia, he fights with the natives and rob them of their crops and goods. It states in the ...
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Women And Children Governor Winthrop
2,748 words... exported that some of the Pequot warriors taunted the English that if one of the Pequot warriors "could kill but one of you more, he would be equal with God, and as the Englishman's God is, so would he be. "[ 60 ] When we consider the willingness of Massachusetts Bay to execute troublesome Quakers for violating banishment orders, the Pequot blasphemies help to explain the bloody results of the Pequot War. Both Indians and Englishmen believed in the powers of the supernatural. Roger Williams ...
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Cash Crop Make Money
514 wordsThe Virginians were better off than the Puritans were, because they had tobacco for a cash crop, they had a longer growing season, and they could trade and sell to England easier than the Puritans could. The Virginians were also more loosely structured than the Puritans, and were allowed to be individual people instead of one large mass. Smith and Bradford's ways of leading their colonies were similar, yet so very different. Smith's main concern was to make money and be famous. Bradford's concep...
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Plymouth Plantation Writing Styles
558 wordsComparing the Writing Styles of Bradford to Byrd In the Elements of Literature English book the excerpts from the stories of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The History of the Dividing Line by William Byrd can be compared and contrasted in many ways. Whether it's the difference in writing styles, the difference purposes for writing the stories, or simply each writer's tone, this paper will give examples of each comparison or contrast. One difference between Bradford and Byrd is their...
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William Bradford John Smith
427 wordsCompare and Contrast of two Authors In the story The General History Of Virginia by John Smith, was a story on how he made people come to the new world. John Smith style of writing was more poetic than Bradford's, John Smith used lots af adjectives. And William Bradford he was a plain writer he did not use any special words he would use normal words and to his point. Even though these men lived the same time period they were still totally different from each other. John Smith and William Bradfor...
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