osed to the commercial reasons of founding Jamestown, Puritans founded Salem because they were being persecuted by the Royal and Catholic Church power in England. Therefore, founding Salem was solely a religious purpose. Unlike the Jamestown colonists who only hoped to gain a profit, Puritan leaders aimed to build a better society in America, that could set an example for the rest of the world.
             About early difficulties, the Chesapeake was much harsher than Massachusetts. Early settlements of Jamestown suffered from the oppositions of Indians, inadequate colonists, high mortality rates, the uneven proportion between men and women, and inequality among the whites. Frankly speaking, Jamestown could be a much better colony if it w
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