Compare And Contrast Captain John Smith

While being in England, he decided to go on a voyage to colonize Virginia. Captain Christopher Newport was the leader of the voyage. Smith was on the council and he helped with many things, especially about securing foods from the Native Americans. Smith was captured by Chief Powhatan,

On April 10, 1606, John Smith (an adventurer) explorer and author, and his crew were sent by King James I to start a colony in Jamestown. In December 1606 the company sent out three ships carrying 106 settlers to start the new colony. On May 13, 1607 John Smith named the colony Jamestown in honor of the King. Years later on September 6, 1620 William Bradford (an English Separatist) went to Cape Cod, Massachusetts on the Mayflower due to fear of the assimilation into Dutch culture to start a new civilization. The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England on September 6, 1620. The 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of 30-40 in extremely cramped conditions. The two exploration narratives are similar in many ways but they both serve two completely different meanings.

One thing they have in common is that both John Smith and William Bradford started a colony after coming from England to be part of the new world. Smith and his group named his colony Jamestown. While, Bradford’s group settled in Massachusetts naming his colony Plymouth. Starting a colony might be a something they share in common but, the way they built their colonies isn’t.

After Jamestown was settled people in europe began to see that there was opportunity in the new world. While people saw opportunity there was something in the way of their success, the native americans. The settlers and the native americans held a dicate relationship with one another and in the colonies beginnings the indians were not a major problem, but as the the seventeenth came more and more Europeans were in the new world. This caused a change in the relationship with the indians and the English settlers. When the English first begin to explore and colonize the new world they do not fight the indians the make peace with them.

While it is impossible to truly elaborate or even go into much detail on the exploits of Captain John Smith’s life, in this paper I will be covering several of his many achievements. In addition, I will be dispelling several of the popular myths in regards to his life that many modern day Americans believe in. Some of these more modern day myths or false narratives are due to his story being adapted and changed in order to make a children’s video by Disney, while others have been debated by historians ever since they were penned by Smith in one of his most famous works consisting of six volumes: The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles.

The different lives and experiences of William Bradford, John Smith, and Olaudah Equiano show how there are many ways to be adapted to a new world. There were many struggles that each of them faced, and each had different motives when writing their experiences. In some way, there are all connected to one another, with some similarities, but there are differences also.

One of the very first colonies in the New World was named Jamestown. Located in Virginia near the coast, it was infested with diseases like malaria, dysentery and typhoid. Life was short for these colonist dying from harsh conditions. Famine eventually arose, the colonist were so obsessed with finding gold that maintaining a stable source of food did not cross their mind. A man named John Smith was aware of this issue "There was no talk... but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold."(Doc 5). He maintained leadership with the philosophy of "He who does not work, neither shall he eat", keeping the colony alive until help from England arrived. Eventually the discovery of tobacco saved the colony, John Rolfe who experimented with tobacco found that Virginian land was suitable for the seed. Although colonist did not find gold, tobacco became their cash crop, profiting the colony.

One of the lessons that the colonist learned was leadership. One of the acts of leadership for the colonies was an Englishman by the name of John Smith. On review page 21 its states that “He later recalled his vision of the opportunities that awaited those who settled the Americas. Smith would need all of his abilities to steer the new colony, Jamestown, through what turned out to be a disastrous beginning.” In this statement, this show that John Smith takes initiative to take leadership for the colonist in Jamestown. Some examples of his leadership would be on review page 23, its states “Smith held the colony together by forcing the colonist to farm and

     Shortly after Smith introduced his “He that will not work shall not eat” law, the colony’s new stock of food again became infested with rats. Smith had studied different tactics for years while he lived alone in his cabin. He developed a plan for how to handle this situation. Smith “took a divide-and-survive approach when their food ran low by dispersing into small groups.” (Price 109) He called this

To many Europeans in the early 17th century the Americas seemed as a new land of opportunity. John Smith and William Bradford were two of the first men who left England seeking adventure and freedom in the New World. Both groups had difficulties while trying to form their colonies and Smith and Bradford were both elected to lead. While they were both great leaders they had very different lives before their journey from England. While starting their new colonies they also took different approaches to making the land habitable. One of the most notable differences between John Smith and William Bradford was their writing style. John Smith and William Bradford were very different people in

When Smith was captured, he was held prisoner and the leader of the tribe was going to execute John Smith that was until Pocahontas shows up and stops them from killing smith and he was shown the ways of the tribe. But long story short, Smith returns to Jamestown he began to make more money because he learned better ways to find food and to make some products so he became rich and he basically didn't care about anyone that he left Jamestown and went back to Europe and never returned

On September 6, 1620, 102 men, women and children from England boarded a small cargo boat called the Mayflower and set sail for the New World. The passengers left their homes in England in search of religious freedom from the King of England. Today they are known as "pilgrims."

One of the writers who wrote about the hardships they had experienced was John Smith. Captain John Smith was a soldier and the governor of Jamestown. In Smith’s writings, he speaks mostly about the colonization coming to the new land. He and his men believed they were going to build a successful colony. But due to disease, famine, and the occasional attacks from the neighboring Powhatan Indians, and

John Smith was selected because he was a Colonizer, soldier and an author as he wrote his first book in English in the New World called “A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony (1608)”. While he was only in America for two years, Smith was in charge of the survival of England's first English colony in the New World. He is best known for being in

The Jamestown landing in 1607 was the first English settlement to be established in North America. In the movie “The New World” Hollywood attempted to tell the story of the Jamestown settlement and the relationship between John Smith and Pocahontas. The movie’s portrayal of their relationship was one of two people falling in love. The historical facts of their relationship, however, paint a completely different picture. Hollywood failed to represent the truth and romanticized their relationship which was not one of love, but one of an acquaintance or friendship.