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Jamestown: New English Settlement In The New World

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Jamestown colonists ,under any condition, never vaticinate about a conclusion on the New World and yet not intending death was seeking its way towards Jamestown. Jamestown was to be the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Spring of 1607, three English ships were conveying more than a hundred passengers. The English ships were entering the mouth of Chesapeake Bay working the way up the James River. Seeking for treasures and probably uncovering a new route to China, the colonists hopes were through the roof. It was really interesting to know that after all these deaths in Jamestown, the colony withstood and expanded. Another surprise it that Pocahontas was partly involved in this situation. Occupations, Indian attacks, and diseases motivated death in early Jamestown with these major problems in 1607 through 1611. …show more content…

“One surgeon on the ship in the ship list” (Smith 59). If there were ailing men and needed aid from a surgeon, one surgeon can’t shelter all of the colonists from dying painfully. Did colonists ever talked about protection? “There were zero gunsmith on the ship” (Smith 59). Colonists can’t defend one another from harm against questionable consequences. The three items you mainly need in life is shelter, water, and food. On the ship list, the colonists forgot about a cook or even a farmer. In conclusion on the Jamestown Ship List, there should have been more numbers of skilled men compared to deaths on the

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Book Response Essay # 2 of America: Jamestown and Plymouth “Early America was littered with European failures- the Spanish in the Florida,the French at Fort Caroline, and the English at Baffin Island, Roanoke, and Sagadahoc”(Horn, 290). Yet, despite all the pervious disasters, two colonies would begin to find apermanent place on the soil of this New World. James Horn painstakingly chronicled thetribulations

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In the first ship, 82 settler had known occupation, For example: 6 councils ( governors), 47 gentlemen, 12 labours, 4 carpartners, 1 Blacksmith, 1 sailor, 1 barber, 1 bricklayer, 1 mason, 1 tailor, 1 drummer, 1 preacher, 4 Boyes, 1 surgeon, and 28 unknown occupation. In the second ship, For example: 1 council, 28 gentlemen, 21 labourer, 1 cooper, 1 blacksmith, 1 tobacco pipe maker, 6 tailors, 1 jewelry, 4 refiners and goldsmith, 1 gunsmith, 1 perfumer, 2 apothecaries, 1 surgeon, and 51 unknown occupation. The third ship crashed and they didn´t survived. The first people who came to jamestown 70, died by May. According to Document D, Francis west and 36 other men, sailed up to the chesapeake bay to trade for corn with patawomeck Indians, still part powhatan.

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There were 110 men willing to risk everything they had to have a new lease on life. These men were headed to Jamestown, the first permanent settlement. By the end of December only 40 settlers would survive. So, why did so many colonist die?

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The first reason so many colonists died in Jamestown was because of the lack of food, which led to starvation. In Doc. B in the DBQ, Jamestown suffered a drought from 1605-1612. This drought led to no water which led to the lack of fish(Blanton 55).Jamestown also made a reason for the lack of fish, they created a toilet system where they dumped their waste in the river, and the waste did not wash out.

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The Colonies who built the New World The early 16th century, many british colonies came to the new world for various reasons, some for power, money, land, and for religious reasons. This idea of coming to a land of freedom to do whatever they want and to create a new way of living among the natives that already had been stable in the new world. John Smith and William Bradford in their stories, the General History of Virginia John Smith and Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford they had explained how they struggled in the boat to come to the new world and how they had to work together to survive in an unknown land with no resources.

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1)The Early Chesapeake Jamestown i) The Charter was given to the London Company in 1604 by King James. The Boats Discovery, Godspeed, and the Susan Constant all left and landed in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. ii)The Colony, which was basically all men, had horrible diets and basic cleanliness made way for sickness and disease, and by 1608, the colony had almost been destroyed from the inside. Captain John Smith saved it by making good work, order, and forcing ransacks against Native American Villages.

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Only sixty of the colonist had survived the harsh winter that will forever be known as the starving times. Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Summers arrived in May 1610 with 150 people and some supplies from the Bermudas only to find the walking anomalies of Jamestown. Sir Thomas Gates took over as the new governor and order the immediate abandonment of Jamestown. They labored into June to build 4 ships to carry them all back to England. Once all were boarded and sailing down the James river, they spotted another ship headed their way.

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Jamestown was founded in 1607 by many of the English settlers. There were three cultures the Powhatans, the English and the Africans. Pocahontas helped John Smith save the colony. Powhatans wars , later the colony would kill of the native americans to expand land.

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In Jamestown, Virginia 110 people came from England in the spring of 1607 looking to make money off of gold that was rumored to be there. On their way settlers drifted North leading to a colder winter than expected which gave them a very hard time. By the time it was December there were only 40 people left. Many of the Colonists died because of the diseases caused by pollution in their water, unreliable food sources, and a bad drought that got explorers off on the wrong foot. The year of 1607 was not a good year for colonists to start fresh in Jamestown, Virginia.

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Smith quotes that, “there is only one surgeon in Jamestown,” which was a huge, huge problem(59). Another main problem was having no gunsmith, which was bad for the Jamestown people (Smith)(59). If you had no gunsmith, how would the people of Jamestown be able to ask a gunsmith to fix a broken gun? Since there was only one surgeon, many people died because they had lacked in jobs, food, and even water(59)! One surgeon was not enough to save the people of Jamestown(59).

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My first piece of evidence is the environment. The position where Jamestown is in a saltwater transition, and the document also states that because of the tides, the human waste festered, making the saltwater contaminated (Document A). Some more evidence is the lack of food abundance, making it harder to fish or hunt (Document A). Another

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They also died by filth fester that which made the water bad to drink. They also died because the fish only showed up in spring and early summer. Colonists also died during winter because they had no food. The last two reasons they died is that gentlemen did not do any work. Also, because they had no water because of the long drought.

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Some of the deaths of these colonists were caused by freezing to death, some of the deaths were caused by starvation because the animals that they ate where scarce and hibernating and some of the nuts and berries that they gathered were covered in snow. Also many colonists died because of diseases from europe and diseases from the lack of sanitation in the New World. One substantially important difference between Plymouth

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