Captain John Smith Analysis

So many colonists died because lack of skills. I believe they had lack of skill because in document c it shows that the colonist brought 47 gentlemen. Gentlemen would rely on others for food water and shelter. Another reasoning for lack of skills is because in document c it shows they only had one segeon. So if that person had died then they would have no one to help them with cut and/or wundes. Another reason they had a lack of skills is because they had no gunsmith. This meat they weren't able to shoot from a far ways away.

The atrocities the English committed against the Powhatans were comparable of those of the Spanish. One instance in 1610, a Powhatan chief was convicted for being rude. An English officer and his men invaded the Native American town, “seized some of the natives, ‘putt some fiftene or sixtene to the Sworde’ and cut off their heads. Then he ordered his men to burn homes and crops. When the expedition returned to its boats, his men complained that Percy had spared an Indian ‘quene and her Children.’ Percy relented, and threw the children overboard ‘shoteinge owtt their Braynes in the water.’ His men insisted that he burn the queen alive, but Percy less cruel, stabbed her to death.” The English saw themselves superior and considered the Native Americans as savages.

     When the first colonists came to America there were not many things available to them. Their life was hard, almost impossible compared to life today. The early colonists spent almost every hour of everyday working to stay alive. They survived because they were committed to making their settlement grow. (John F. Warner- pg.12-13)

To start off, autumn had come and the settlers were able to establish a good supply for the winter. Unfortunately, their food supply was burned in a fire along with their fort. In the video “Jamestown Rediscovery Part 3” slide 38 mentions, “bad luck struck again, however, when their food supplies were ruined in a blaze that swept through and damaged the fort.” Secondly, instead of gathering food supplies, the settlers decided to go looking for ways to please the Virginia Company. Slide 44 of “Jamestown Rediscovery Part 3” states, “In their zeal to do the Virginia Company well, they failed to acquire enough food stores for their own need.” Now, after their food burned, they neglected the fact that they needed a stable food supply of their own. Lastly, the winter, also known as the “Starving Time” was one of the worst periods in Jamestown. With the arrival of 400 new settlers they had to share their small supply with, people began fighting. In addition, page 33 of “Making Thirteen Colonies” states, “That means armed Indians wouldn’t let anyone out. The settlers couldn’t hunt or fish.” With diseases, no water, and no food, only 60 of the people in Jamestown out of 504 died. To conclude, hunger was the worst hardship settlers had to

When the English began to make there way over to the Americas, there were many different kinds people traveling over for more than one reason. Many who traveled to the Chesapeake were young, unskilled, single men who were not looking to settle and according to John Smith the men were being mislead about their real purpose they were traveling to America. Men thought they were coming to America to “dig gold, wash god, refine god, load gold”, and also to find a path to the Indies for trade. At least twenty eight percent of settlers died each year due to hunger and sickness. Settlers became frustrated because they were not accomplishing what they came here to do. John Smith then came into light when he began to discipline the men, saying that they needed to work in order to eat. The Chesapeake main intention was economic gain. Unlike in the Chesapeake, the

Adventure, promises of wealth, and an opportunity to a new life were some of the many reasons which attracted settlers to the Americas. However, what the new settlers did not know were the many challenges and tragedies this new life entailed. Despite all, the colonists of Jamestown would encounter the difficulties of starting a new colony in a foreign new land. The life these settlers found was nothing like they expected. Their hopes for wealth and a new beginning were soon replaced with death and misery. The colonies of the Americas can be seen as a failure because European settlers would come to experience the horrors that the “New World” would give them including famine and diseases.

The colonists of the then newly conceived Virginia colony were forced to tolerate a great deal of hardships. Arguably the most pressing of these hardships was the utter lack of experience the colonists had in terms of surviving outside of reputable society. This lack of experience inevitably caused many to fall to starvation, disease, and hypothermia. Only through the stern leadership possessed by Captain John Smith and his contemporary John Rolfe were the colonists able to endure the first few years of their existence and eventually become self-sustainable. The future success of the Jamestown colony would prove to those in England that there was still prosperity to be found within North America.

William Bradford even referred to them as “these savage barbarians” and intimated that the natives were “wild men” just like the “wild beasts” that occupied the “hideous & desolate wilderness” to which he gave the Lord credit for redeeming them from their oppressors the natives

Fellow Cherokee people: There is a bad seed among us that must be expelled before spreading it’s disease to more members of our honorable tribe. Jon Ross and his cronies are spreading lies and blinding our people from seeing the truth.

As a result of the harsh winter, lack of fresh water, and the spread of disease, life in Jamestown was difficult for the settlers. Attacks by the native Indians made life almost impossible. The Indians, hoping that the settlers would give up and leave, raided their camps, stealing pistols, gunpowder, and other necessary supplies. John Smith became leader of the colonists and did his best to fight off the Indians. He also became a writer. He wrote the first English book on America, A True Relation of Virginia, and The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. Captain John Smith generally wrote for the people and their entertainment.

Throughout history, there have been numerous accounts of John Smith and the Jamestown colony, yet only a small portion of such tales have been proven to be true. To begin with, John Smith endured a difficult upbringing and faced several hardships amid the early stages of his life; however, his previous trials prepared him for Jamestown and gave him the experience needed to successfully preside over the colony. As president, he was firm in command, especially with the natives and those unwilling to work, and enforced laws of equality among the colonists. Additionally, his negotiations with the Native Americans are what brought great prosperity upon Jamestown. Prior to returning home for immediate care, Smith began publishing several literary

During his term as president he led the colony in a productive manner. He actively traded with the Indian tribes and even held military exercise training for the colonists. Smith made sure that the people of Jamestown became productive members of the community by having a “no work, no food” policy. In contrast to other settlers he tried to keep peaceful interactions with the Indians. After leaving Jamestown in 1609 for Europe, he returned in 1614 to the new world to explore an area he later named New England. After escaping from pirates and returning to Europe he planned one last trip to the New World but never made it.

John Smith was selected because he was a Colonizer, soldier and an author as he wrote his first book in English in the New World called “A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony (1608)”. While he was only in America for two years, Smith was in charge of the survival of England's first English colony in the New World. He is best known for being in

Omg! When I was five years old I had A imaginary friend his name was John smith but only I could see him. However, I managed to drive my family crazy by his presence especially my older brother as John smiths maned astatine occurred when he was around. My grandmother had the job of picking me up my brother and I unruly kids after school. It was started by making sure no one sat on John smith in the backseat this would escalate to a crying and screaming match some days my brother would have to sit up front due to invading John smiths space. This doesn't sound like much was very disrupted for anyone who came in contact with John smith. John smith had a sister that did not live with him and attended another school. I would make my grandmother

The explorer narratives, however, were not the only ones which described a dark and forbidding quality of the New World. The colonists at Jamestown and all along the eastern coast suffered through harsh winters with minimal supplies, causing many deaths and making life in the New World extremely challenging. For example, in William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation he remarks that 50 of the 102 Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth had died within the first year (Perkins and Perkins 50). The reasons for the high number of deaths in the colonies vary, but disease and harsh winters certainly claimed their share. In addition, the colonies struggled to establish crops and solid dwellings for months or years after they first landed, and supply ships proved to be unreliable at best. John Smith of the Jamestown Colony is responsible for writing The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles in which he depicted the grievous condition of the colonists only days after the ships departed and left them to the mercy of the land (Reuben 6). He wrote, “Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days scarce ten amongst us could either go, or well stand, such extreme weakness and sickness oppressed us.” (Perkins and Perkins 36). In the same piece of literature, Smith also noted another very ominous threat to the well-being of the