...Paragraph 1 Intro---A Land As God Made It, Jamestown and the Birth of America, is a book written by James Horn, who is president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, and is an author of numerous books about the colonization of North America, including works such as A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke (2010). The work, A Land As God Made It, is written to show a detailed, and insightful perspective of looking at the purpose of Jamestown. The book is about showing a time line, and how the settlement of Jamestown was very much a business opportunity for profit by the Virginia Company, as well as investors, in another attempt of creating a successful settlement for the expansion and growth of England...
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...The Historical Significance of the Jamestown Colony Jamestown is referred to as the “First Colony” in popular culture, however, in my opinion, Jamestown is more akin to a “stepping stone” for the colonization of North America. The Jamestown colony is tremendously significant in history and shows us the settlers motive of colonization, as well as their reasoning for settling in the area they chose. Again, the Jamestown colony was a key checkpoint in the European race for North America. The English settlers main purpose for traveling to the New World was gold, which unfortunately was not easily found on the east coast. As well as gold, the settlers also travelled for religious freedom and monetary gains. In an article by ushistory.org, they...
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...The character and nature of the colonies were very different from the start. Jamestown in Virginia lacked any know how, laws, or religion. They only wanted the riches that America had to offer, and they put little effort into making them a government and making a since of permanence. John Smith documented the troubles that were arising for them in his letter to the Virginia Company. John Smith seemed to be on the right track but could never fully make everything work. He also documented the starving times which led to a great loss of men and probably even a loss of there will power. Without a structured government and the things they needed to survive they seemed to be doomed. They later found the structure they needed by creating laws but not until great loss had occurred. Massachusetts Bay on the other hand came in with a plan and used that plan with great success. The colony wanted to succeed and show the rest of the world what they had accomplished. Their main stronghold was their religion. Their religion was important to them and also creating families to carry it out. They also knew they had to be governed and they had a plan in place. Like the Massachusetts Bay the Plymouth in Massachusetts also wanted religious independence from England. Plymouth also suffered the loss of men like Jamestown in Virginia. The Maryland Colony looked a lot like Jamestown in the since of tobacco and wanting to be profitable. The Maryland Colony also had some form of government. All the colonies...
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...Death in Jamestown The first years of the first permanent English colony, Jamestown, was not easy. Around 110 Englishmen settled off the Chesapeake Bay on the coast if Virginia in 1607. Many of these colonists were looking to gain religious freedom or start new lives. However, many of these colonists died due to brackish water, lack of skills, and bad relations with the Powhatons. One of the factors that contributed to the high death rate in Jamestown was water. Water cause problems for the colonists in 3 ways. For instance, the water was too salty to drink (Document A). The tides would cause to salty water to flood the freshwater, so the colonists had no other water to drink. Then when they drank the salty water, they would get sick. Also, the water was full of trash (Document A). The colonist threw their trash and waste in the water, but the waste would fester instead of flush away. And again, the colonists had no other water, so they would get sick. Lastly, there were many droughts around the time the colonists settled. The droughts left no water for the crops (Document B). Since the colonists could not grow enough crops, famine spread across Jamestown. Therefore, water and the lack of water cause many problems for the Jamestown colonists....
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...There were many reasons that contributed to eighty percent of the Jamestown colonists dying. Jamestown was an English colony that lasted about four years. Jamestown was located in present day Virginia. The colony was mostly made up of the British lower class searching for a better life. During the time 1607 through 1611, there was a death rate of eighty percent. The main reasons that contributed to the high death rate were, environmental problems, relations with the Native Americans, and their own skills. Of the many reasons that the settlers three of them stand out, the first one was environmental problems. First, Jamestown’s position on the saltwater freshwater transition played a big role in the many deaths. Settlers drank water and took baths in the water. They also dumped their waste in water. Little did they know that the waste stayed in their water, “ … where filth introduced into the river tended to fester rather than flush away (Blatnon).” Secondly, The 1607-1612 drought 1609-1610 ‘starving time’ affected the colonists greatly because their crops and the forest animals struggled to survive. Lastly, precipitation spikes greatly influenced the lives of the Jamestown colonists. Precipitation affected whether their crops grew. If...
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...In comparison and contrast for the two major British colonies were formed in North America, Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay they have multiple characteristics on what makes them different from each other, Also what makes them comparison. Jamestown was hungry for gold and sacrificed a lot to try and get it. The Massachusetts Bay was in search for religious freedom. Polar opposite backgrounds but formed by the British colonies. To contrast Jamestown from The Massachusetts Bay; Jamestown came from a group of men calling themselves the Virginia company of London. In 1607 the Virginia Company had high expectations of making a profit with gold and silver discoveries. Colonists added 104 males searching to carve a fortune, not starting a new life...
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...It was a settlement, a perfectly normal one… until.. Death. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. It was located in Virginia, near the Cobham Bay and the James River. There were 104 colonists that decided to settle here, but they didn’t sense what was coming. Through the years of Jamestown, the colony nearly died out within those years, and the death toll rose tremendously. The colony struggled by and managed to survive. The reason there were so many deaths because they colony faced many hardships, such as a horrible place to live, a lack of important workers and attacks by savage natives. First of all, the decision that the settlers chose to settle wasn’t a very well chosen place to live, as some of the most...
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...came to Jamestown for what seemed like a good life, they didn’t expect to have as many hardships as they did. Jamestown was located in the Colony of Virginia and was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. In 1607, 110 male settlers came to the Americas to come to Jamestown, but by December, 70 settlers died—leaving 40 settlers left. How did a seem-to-be wonderland like Jamestown end up to be a ghost town? Well, this is due to shortages of water and periods of major drought, shortages of food, and tension among surrounding Native American tribes and English settlers. First, having little to no water effects life drastically. In paragraph 2 of Document A, the author states,”Because the adjacent river and creeks became brackish as water levels rose, reliable sources of fresh water would have been scarce by the seventeenth century.” Without having access to clean and fresh water the settlers would have become dehydrated. In paragraph 2 of Document A, the author also states,”...the...
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...The Struggles of Jamestown On May 14, 1607 three ships sailed for the new colony known as Jamestown Virginia. The boats were packed with one hundred and four men and boys who left England on a cold December day. King James I had granted the Virginia Company its first charter which stated the right to establish colonies in Virginia. Any Englishmen that wanted to had the rights as colonists in the new settlement. The King had his eyes on Gold ore that had been found there by the Spanish and looked at this opportunity as an economic one for England. Little did they all know about the hardships that they would encounter in “the new world”. Life at Jamestown is the story of brave people with a fierce determination to survive which laid the foundation for our country today. The first mistake the colonists made was the location. The goal was to find a place on a river so the colonists could search for a northwest passage, and that would be a key defensive position in case of attacks from the Natives and Spanish. The Location of Jamestown was in a swampy area and was isolated from most game which needed more space to inhabit. Almost all game on the tiny peninsula was killed and hunted immediately which left the settlers with little to eat. Not only was the location bad for hunting but the low, surrounding land was marshy and filled with mosquitos which carried and led to several diseases. Along with little food, and disease filled bugs, the river that Jamestown was located by was...
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...When English colonists began settling in North America they died at a startling rate. Jamestown, settled in 1607, was the first English colony that lasted, but it nearly did not. Of the 104 men and boys who landed on May 1607, only 38 were still alive by January 1608, when 100 new colonists arrived. Things continued to be so grim that in the winter of 1609-1610, later known as the "starving time," survivors resorted to cannibalism (Ghose), and the population of settlers in Virginia shrank from 300 to 90 (60 in Jamestown) ("Jamestown Chronicle Timeline"). Yet in 1620 the Pilgrims voluntarily left England for Virginia. During their first winter in the New World, half of them died. Meanwhile, hundreds more settlers came to Virginia. What...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF JAMESTOWN IN VIRGINIA SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR SHELLY BAILESS SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY I HIUS221-B09 LUO BY YVONNE MCCLENDON JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA MAY 20, 2013 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WHAT WAS THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF THESE COLONIES? . . . . CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH GEORGE ALSOP. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INTRODUCTION How Jamestown was established in Virginia, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Massachusetts and the establishment of Maryland and what was their nature and character of the colonies. Captain Smith major complaint, why the colonist was unable to fish or hunt general misconceptions of the treasure council. George Alsop method of growing and harvesting tobacco. The important of tobacco to the economy of Maryland. What was the nature and character of these colonies? That no man speak imperiously or maliciously against...
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...The extreme hardships that the original settlers experienced taught Americans to persevere through tough times. The first settlement was in Jamestown around the time of 1609 to 1611. Life was pretty difficult. They didn't have many jobs and the drought made it hard to grow crops. So they didn't have much to live off of. Many colonist died because of all the diseases, conflicts with Native Americans, and very limited resources. When the colonist arrived they were not the first to discover the land. Native Americans had called that place home for a long time before the colonist arrived. On May 26th, 1607 two die in the first Indian attack on Fort James (Doc E). The Native Americans clearly were a threat to the colonist in Jamestown. At least five more die in the Indian ambushes from June through August (Doc E). As time went on colonist were still being killed by the Native Americans. “Of 100 men at Nansemond Indians kill 50” (Doc E). Even three years later the Native Americans still strived to...
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...Robert de La Salle – 1682; explored the Mississippi basin, which he named Louisiana (after the French king, Louis XIV) Dutch Claims 7. Henry Hudson –1609; sailed up a broad river (later named for him as the Hudson River), an expedition that established Dutch claims to the surrounding area that would become New Amsterdam (and later New York) . Early English Settlements 8. John Cabot – helped English defeat Spanish fleet – the Spanish Armada – in 1588. 9. The English devised a practical method for financing the costly and risky enterprise of founding new colonies. This was called joint-stock companies. Jamestown 10. King James I chartered the Virginia Company, a joint-stock company that established the permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607. Early problems. 11. The first settlers of Jamestown suffered great hardships from Indian attacks, famine, and disease–and their own mistakes. Tobacco prosperity. 12. Captain John Smith – led the establishment 13. John Rolfe – established a tobacco industry Transition to a royal colony. 14. Charter was revoked in 1624, and the colony was under the...
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...Jamestown, a Comparison of Accounts As I compare the account of the settling of Jamestown as written in Chapter three of the textbook to Jeffery L. Sheler’s account in the Smithsonian Magazine, I will show how they are alike and how they differ. Both are in agreement that the settlers suffered from diseases, drought, and starvation, as well as attacks from the Native Americans. When the settlers first landed, they were in awe of the garden paradise, the fresh streams, and the stately trees. However, soon, they were involved in their first Indian skirmish. This resulted in their going back to their ships and traveling down the James River to secure a safe sight. They landed on a marshy peninsula which they thought would give them protection from further Indian attacks and also serve as a good place to watch for enemy ships. Also, it states in both of the article and the chapter that they worked at building a fortress and were eager to extract gold, timber, and other commodities for the Virginia Company. As a result of their unwise choice for the location of the first English settlement, and due to the tremendous heat and insect infestation, 46 of the colonist died. Other deaths were to follow from Indian attacks and disease. Chapter 3 portrays the settlers as high bred gentlemen who wanted to be leaders and not laborers. Many of the others were craftsmen and men who had always worked as gentlemen's servants. It also states that the settlers resorted to bullying...
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...Settlers in the North America immigrate to find gold and fertile lands.For this reason, they build up colonies such as Jamestown and Plymouth Colony. Both Plymouth Colony by Puritans and Jamestown by John Smith is successful colonies.However, they couldn't predict that the land has many hardships such as deseases, coldness of weather, lack of foods and relationships between Native Americans. John Smith is accepted to have acted significant part in the foundation of Jamestown, the first successful colony in North America. Success of colony comes from ambition of John Smith. However, For example, he describes new world as a land of opportunity and it is also called as begining of American Dream which is about working hard and abilitiy...
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