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... These include The Virginia Bay Colony, spearheaded by John Smith and his crew in Jamestown, and The Massachusetts Bay Colony, settled by Puritans from England in 1630. ... The following explains how each colony was different in origin, social climate, and government at the time.
Lured by gold, the Virginia Company of London obtained a charter from King James I of England to place a settlement in the New World. ... Many of the people who came to Virginia were in destitute and were looking for a way to start over. Eventually, John Rolfe’s innovation of perfecting the process of yielding tobacco crops in 1613 formed Virginia into a rewarding economic system based solely on the yellow leaf. ...
In sharp contrast to Virginia Bay, those from England who arrived at Massachusetts Bay were there for a different reason: religious freedom. Feeling threatened by the Church of England, a group of Puritans acquired a royal charter to create the Massachusetts Bay Company.
Approximate Word count = 757
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