Captain John Smith In Jamestown

Captain John Smith was an explorer from England, a solider and a colonial governor. John’s teenage years were rough to say the least. At sixteen years of age, his father passed away tragically. He joined volunteers in fighting for independence from Spain. While fighting for Hungary he was promoted to captain, but in 1602 was captured and sold as a slave. He escaped and fled, then proceeded to travel at several different places until he went back to England.

In this essay I will be talking about a colony called jamestown. Jamestown is a colony that started in 1607 when settlers landed on jamestown Island. A few days after they landed they were attacked by powhatan indians. Then the settlers started to gather wood to build a fort. The walls were shaped like a triangle with house inside it.

In the early years of Jamestown there was lots of death. In 1607 the first permanent English colony had arrived at James river. By 1611 roughly 400 Jamestown colonists were wounded up dead. The reasoning for many colonists dieing is because of lack of skills, bad environment, then bad relationship with natives.

There were many hard obstacles along the way. The colonists went to Jamestown because they thought there was a lot of gold there but what they didn’t know was that there were Native Americans near by where they camped and landed. Many of the Colonists died because of 3 reasons: lack of preparation, bad location, and unexpected events.

Has America always been true to its ideals of freedom reigning throughout its people and diverse culture? Throughout history the relationship as well as interactions between Native Americans and eager-faced settlers have been at the least discriminatory. "America the land of the free, home of the brave," this iconic line has seemed to be America's anthem time and time again. Throughout the periods and trials involving Native Americans and other settlers, this theme has seemed contrary in the Indians eyes.

The Virginia colony was founded by John Smith a english explorer and some other colonist in the year 1607. The colony was one of the first 13 colonies that was located on the atlantic coast of North america . The colony was named after Queen Elizabeth l. John Smith was also a solider, map maker and a trader. He was captured and taken in december of 1607 by a Powhatan hunting party. Later he was saved by chief powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas by coming in between him and a blow from her father.

Throughout the 17th century, the English faced many hardships. The settlers of Jamestown had faced misfortune of the new land such as disease and malnutrition, and failure of crops. Over time the English built their economic and social structure with perfecting crops, indentured slaves and building a new society that would spark others to explore.

In 1606 the Virginia company set out to establish a colony in the new world. They hoped to find gold and other precious materials in an area the Spanish didn’t control. On April 17, 1607, the expedition spotted land. In order to not be attacked by the Spanish, they established the colony near the mouth of the James River, in the Chesapeake Bay. Because of this decision, they were more susceptible to attacks from the 13,000 natives that were in the area. They named the colony Jamestown. As they set up they also panned for gold. The natives conducted small raids on groups outside the fort, which increased the anxiousness of the colonists. This resulted in some colonists mistaking each other for natives and shooting one another. Virginia was in

When thinking about the first settlers of the United States, the Thirteen Colonies come to mind. Jamestown was honored as being the first town to successfully settle upon the newly discovered land. What most people do not know is that there was technically fourteen original colonies, and the Roanoke settlement was the first. In 1586, Queen Elizabeth I instructed a group of around one hundred and fifteen men and women to start a new life on the uncivilized land. After some time of being on the island, supplies were running short. John White and Ralph Lane, the colonists governors, sailed back to Britain to gather the necessary goods, but ran into issues when trying to return. A naval battle between Spain and Britain restricted White and Lane

Imagine saying goodbye to friends, family, and your home town to take a treacherous journey through thousands of miles of ocean in a small wooden boat. Your endpoint, a outlandish and often unfriendly land. Yet, in the 1600s, thousands of English, Dutch, Spanish, and French men and women did just that because of religious oppression, paucity of money, or a hope that a superior life is awaiting them across the Atlantic Ocean.

Imagine coming to a new world ,scared, lonely, and confused, only to find everyone in the colony is dying. There is no hope, no food, no water, no friends. This is what life was like in the Jamestown settlement around 1607-1612. Many young English (around 17-35 year-olds) came to this settlement in hopes to pay off debt and own land, but instead most of them did not live long. Life in the colony was very hard. They had little supplies and had to work harder than they ever had in their life. For mulitple reasons, many Jamestown colonists died.

On December 6, 1606 the Virginia began on the ships. The ships arrived in north America to

James smith is very important because he was an English soldier and adventurer, and Jamestown's

In the lesson of “The English challenge to Spanish control of America”, I learned that the Englishmen, went through a lot of issue for example, they had a rough start, when they came to Jamestown. I found it interesting, that king Philip declare war because Queen Elizabeth refuse to marry him. I didn’t know that chief Powhatan gave his daughter hand to be marry to John Rolfe. I thought they met when she went to England her first time. Over all, I love reading this lesson. I will love to go in more detail about Jamestown.

I completely agree with your assessment of Jamestown and the struggles the residents faced when they first arrived. The local water supply was one of the main reason that so many were to ill to work on farms. I would also like to add that those who weren’t too ill to work did not farm because of social principles. In England during this time period it was commonly believed that gentleman should not do any manual labor. This belief in association with a lack of farmers caused no crops being produced. As you stated the settlers looked down on the corn the Native Americans offered as being inferior to their wheat based diet. As starvation began to affect the settlers they began gratefully accepting and trading for the corn. When tobacco