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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares three accounts of early American history. There is a prevalent perspective among Americans that the earliest colonists to North America were homogenous in their purpose and intentions in coming to the New World. This viewpoint overlooks the immense diversity of early colonists and the multiple reasons that they had for establishing a presence in the wilderness of North America. This examination of this diversity looks specifically at the first-person accounts of three early colonial leader: John Smith, William Bradford and John Winthrop. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the New World. This viewpoint overlooks the immense diversity of early colonists and the multiple reasons that they had for establishing a presence in the wilderness of North America. The
following examination of this diversity looks specifically at the first-person accounts of three early colonial leader: John Smith, William Bradford and John Winthrop. Captain John Smith helped to establish
the first permanent English colony in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia, which was a venture organized and instituted by the London Company in 1607 ("United States History"). While
Smith makes mention of God and praises the dedication of the companys chaplain, the purpose of this venture was to make themselves and their backers rich, as they believed that
they would find gold and silver, as the Spanish did in South America ("United States History"). Many of the men in Smiths expedition were "gentlemen," and therefore considered themselves above
the tasks necessary for survival ("United States History"). Smiths account of the founding of Jamestown concentrates on relating the challenges faced by the colonists and, in so doing, offers
a rationale for why colonization did not occur sooner. He writer that many people wonder why a country so fair "as Virginia is," with a "people so tractable," should not
have long been "possessed" by adventurers, as this act would eternalize "the memory of those that effected it" (Smith). As this suggests, his account offers, additionally, a rationalization of why
their efforts did not turn out as their business backers expected. The perspectives and commented offered by both Bradford and Winthrop are much more oriented toward religion, as
Massachusetts was colonized by Protestants seeking religious freedom. The Mayflower Compact, which is recorded by Bradford. This document suggests how the motivations of the Pilgrims encompassed other factors besides that
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