Jamestown and Plimoth are two of the most well known early American colonies. While they are certainly similar in certain aspects, there are also aspects in which they are completely different from one another. Both the Jamestown and Plimoth settlements however played a vital role in the European settlement of North America and started a revolution in terms of settlements being created across the continent. Although the settlements had their differences, there is no debating that they greatly affected the landscape of colonization in the New World. However, the question remains of how similar these settlements are to each other. To start, both Jamestown and Plimoth were early English settlements and were settled at around the same time, being