Jamestown v. Plymouth: What were the motives and expections of the people in each colony? What different sets of problems did each group face? How did they react to these problems?

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Starvation, disease, and Indians; these are just a few of the problems you would have dealt with if you wanted to journey to and live in the New World at the start of the 17th century. Knowing some of the fatal and dangerous problems they would have faced what could have been the motivation to make people go anyway? To give up the comforts they were accustomed to having; to risk getting sick and not …

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