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Jamestown's Struggle

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Another reason for Jamestown 's struggle was their choice in the people they believed would help the colony. The colony of Jamestown was home to about one hundred people known as gentlemen. These were wealthy men that did not work or help the colony in any sort of way. These people made up around half of the population causing not much to be done considering the amount of people brought to the colony originialy. Also women were not brought for the first twelve years of the colony. Without women there was no way for the colony to repopulate the colony so the only way to get people was to bring them from England which costed money. The last reason was that they had no doctors. They brought appothocaries ,pharmacists, but no doctors. The appothocaries
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