In 1606 the men who petitioned the king to settle in the New World were divided into two companies; The Virginia Company of Plymouth and the Virginia Company of London. The Plymouth Company only lasted one winter but the Virginia Company was able to establish the first successful settlement, Jamestown. The Jamestown community lacked leadership and no government. John Smith quickly took the colony over and kept the settlers from starving. The company's reason for the expedition was to find gold. Smith summarized the thoughts of the gold seekers in Virginia in a short excerpt. "The worst [among us were the gold seekers who] with their golden promises made all men their slaves in hope of recompense. There was no t

After the failure of gold in Virginia, the people who settled there needed to find something worthwhile or else their expendure would be a complete failure. Finally, the settlers learned how to use the crop of tobacco which was native. With the need of labor, the colonists turned to indentured servants. Indentured servants were people who couldn't afford the passage to the new world but in return, they would work for seven years for the person who paid their voyage. This eventually turned into a major problem. After the seven years were up, the indentured servants had no where to go and caused many problems. They couldn't find work or find a place to live. Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, stated in a letter to Governor Berkeley in Bacon's Manifesto. "Let us trace... [the] men in authority and favor to whose hands the dispensation of the country's wealth has been committed. Let us observe the sudden rise of their estates... [compared] with the quality in which they first entered this country. Let us consider their sudden advancement. And let us also consider whether any public work for our safety and defense...." Unlike the indentured servants brought to Virginia, New Englanders had a tight bond together. As said in A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop, "So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace." New Englanders were a unity, working together to survive for a common cause.

"During the 1630's while a host of young men embarked for the plantation colonies, some 15,000 people of a different character headed farther north in a "Grea

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