Everyone kept to themselves and John Smith added to this problem by being a leader who was not supportive of his people. The colony did not have the strong leader or foundation, so it was a colony that was built upon individualism. Their main driving force to come to the New World was money, and economic opportunities that were available. Another main thing was that the men were the head of households, it was a society based on patriarchal beliefs. Plymouth and Jamestown each had their different factors that changed them, but they also hold some similarities. Both Plymouth and Jamestown held English settlers, although the motives for settling were different the location from which they came from was the same. Starvation and death came upon both colonies because it was land that they had not yet gotten used to. One last important similarities was the presence of Native Americans within each colony. They helped supply food and as times went on they later became slaves, or servants to the English