Both settlements set sail for the new world with good intentions even though they landed on opposite climates, each climate gave the colonies difficulty; Jamestown with its warmth spread diseases through mosquitos and Plymouth with its cold was starvation. The difference in climates also played a part in settler’s backgrounds, the Jamestown settlers were not used to working as they came from a more privileged background, this is also what lead them to seek the new world, for gold and financial gains. Plymouth settlers on the other hand were farmers, hard workers, Pilgrims were used to sharing and getting along; this is where Thanksgiving came from. The Pilgrims also sought the new world for religious freedom, not financial gain. The Pilgrims