Colonial America: Jamestown vs. Plymouth | Thomas Kidd

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

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One was founded on profit. The other on faith. Jamestown and Plymouth shaped two powerful forces in American life: commerce and religion. Thomas Kidd, author of American History Volumes 1 and 2, tells the story of the colonies that helped set the stage for the nation to come. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	What would make a 17th century European leave the relative comfort and safety of the old world for a perilous life
0:38.7	in the new.
0:40.3	This new world wasn't just new, it was utterly unknown.
0:44.4	Getting there was incredibly dangerous.
0:47.1	Imagine taking an ocean voyage on a small wooden ship equipped only with sails and simple
0:51.9	navigational tools. And once you arrived, if you arrived, then what?
0:57.0	How would you survive?
0:59.0	What would you eat?
1:00.0	Were the natives friendly or hostile?
1:03.0	These are only a few of the daunting challenges and questions that face the first American colonists.
1:09.0	Their motivations for coming were complex, but for our purposes
1:13.1	we can put them into two broad categories, financial and religious. The financial was represented
1:20.2	by the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, established in 1607. The religious was represented by the
1:27.0	settlement at Plymouth, Massachusetts, established in 1620. The religious was represented by the settlement at Plymouth, Massachusetts, established
1:29.6	in 1620. By comparing these two colonies, we can learn much about the origins of America.
1:35.9	The colonists who established Jamestown in 1607 were sponsored by the Virginia Company of London,
1:42.9	a profit-making venture.
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