Jamestown Colonization

In 2007, the Jamestown settlement celebrated its 400th anniversary. The governing body of Virginia, the Virginia General Assembly, held a session there, a parade was held, and even Dick Cheney and Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom attended a ceremony honoring the historic site where English settlers would first find a permanent home in the future United States (Lessig and Payne, 2007). Looking backward, it seemed almost inevitable that the settling of Jamestown was the beginning of the United States as it’s known today.

The creation of Jamestown started on May 24, 1607. Captain Christopher Newport led three ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery. "They named both the river and their colony after King James I of England" (Jamestown 28). They did not want to leave England completely or they would not have named those two things after him. They probably felt that they needed to name these things after him because he was the main leader and investor of the expedition. The colonies agriculture and Industry started off slow. "They failed to produce silk, grapes, and other items because of the Virginia climate" (Jamestown 29). They had trouble growing these because they thought that they would grow as they did in England but the climate was much different. They brought a lot of stuff over that they thought would work but did not and this trial and error resulted in a long process before they finally found the first product that grew or worked. "The first agricultural products to be successfully raised were hogs and Indian corn" (Jamestown 29). There was more than one leader that contributed to keeping Jamestown up and going. Captain

Since the first civilization Jamestown, the colonists slowly adapted and improved the environment of the land and gained more and more people due to the rapid overpopulation in England. But as the more advanced and smarter the people got. They began to import and export goods to other countries as a growing country, the British began to levy all kinds of trade regulation and taxes, all to stop the aid it was giving to other world power country that British was enemy and the selfish greed British had to only be the one gaining from the colonist. Therefore causing unsettling feelings of the colonies towards them, as they felt they are been treated unfairly and taking away what they felt is their own right and own money.

The more southern colonies were under very different circumstances than their religious neighbors up north. Document five does show the thirsty and greedy psyche’s of the colonists on their way to the Virginia colony. This greed was fueled by the south’s land was more fertile and arable and allowed for larger amounts of cash crops and increased profits and much more monetary incentive to become a colonist rather religious incentive. After the initial crisis of the Jamestown colony, Jamestown’s population grew exponentially after large amounts of people, as seen in document four, crossed the ocean not for God but for gold. Soon the colony grew at such a rate the governor Berkeley was forced to beseech the king and parliament for more soldiers

Without a long-term plan and little oversight, Britain allowed the colonies to develop politically as well as economically when they were sent to establish a trading post, Jamestown. Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the Americas established in 1607. In the form of a charter given by the King of England, the colonists were given the power and authority to create laws that would benefit the settlement. The colonist used the power they were given to install a representative assembly with individuals that represented the population. In 1620 the Mayflower ship landed in Plymouth and was the first New England colony established. Unlike the Jamestown settlers, the government did not send the members from the Mayflower. They were

On the first voyage, Bartholomew Gosnold sailed with 3 ships to build a colony. They found new land, and named it Jamestown after King James. There was a lot of doubt about supporting voyages to send more people to the settlement. There were good reasons why the colony should be supported though. Some of those reasons were land, the spread of their religion, but mostly wealth.

Jamestown, Virginia also known as “America’s birthplace”, went through many hardships and adversities in its first years. The journey from London to the Chesapeake Bay alone, took four months when it was only to take three. The rivalry and conflict happening in the ship itself only made matters worse. Once the colonist arrived to what is now known as Virginia, their conditions only worsened as food, water, and shelter were scarce.

At this period in history people were making their way from England to the new world to try and settle and find places to live. In 1607, John Smith voyaged to what was called the new world and they began to attempt to start colonies. The first permanent English settlement in the new world, was the Jamestown colony in Virginia. The new world began here when the people started the first of the 13 colonies. When they went to the new world, they were not aware of the struggles they would need to overcome to make it. They had struggles with food, tools, structure, places to live, and many other things. These problems made it very hard for the colony to settle there, until the Indians assisted them, but this ended up failing because of an argument

Jamestown faced many challenges along the way and even from the start. Spain had taken control of the seas and the new world. England knew they needed a chunk of this new world. To accomplish this objective, King James I sent Bartholomew Gosnold to establish the Virginia company and to colonize new land in North America. When the 3 ships arrived off the coast of Virginia, a terrible storm made the sailors lost in the Chesapeake bay. This lead them to find the a peninsula on the James river where they decided to build their settlement - Jamestown.

The disastrous beginning of the settlements in Jamestown taught colonists their mistakes and methods to improve their colonies. By the end of seventeenth century, they have made a variety of accomplishments in the North America. Developments in the later colonies reflect early unsuccessful Jamestown experience, that left deep root in the New World. I think the colonists learned and applied the Jamestown lessons of leadership, relationship with Indians, and effective agriculture into other colonies by establishing organizations like the House of Burgesses in order to control colonial activities.

The voyage to the New World in North America was a financial venture in hopes of finding gold, just as the Spaniards discovered in South America. In addition to gold, finding a water route to the Orient was also a task the Englishmen were given. The investors of the Virginia Company warned the colonists that without success, financial backing would cease. Therefore, in 1606, one hundred and four Englishmen and boys set sail from England, and landed in the Chesapeake Region of Virginia in May of 1067. The Englishmen or gentry were unable to adapt to the new environment and the biological exchange of disease, which left many of them ill prepared to deal with their new surroundings. The Starving Times at the Jamestown settlement was an era

The major reason of why Jamestown was founded was for the Settlers to gain wealth and to profit quickly from gold mining. The settlers wanted to experience religious freedom and also to escape from the taxes that were being forced on them in England. They were also confident that they could manage their own government. During the settlement, they faced many problems like the climate and native people. They were not able to adjust with the new environment and from this the settlers experienced famine and death.

On April 26th, 1607, Three ships coming from England arrived at Chesapeake Bay. This was the start of the American Colonies. Upon arrival, Jamestown was established and had a population of 104 men and boys at first. The reason for the establishment of Jamestown was that the Virginia trading company was interested in finding gold and other resources, not so much over establishing a functioning society. Jamestown was a town built on tobacco and due to the importance of tobacco being grown, and due to the amount of fieldwork it needed, slavery was a necessity to farmers. Meanwhile over in Massachusetts, Puritan society was being formed. The Puritans wanted to convert people, including Native Americans, to Puritanism. Over time more people come

During that time there were many settlers in James town.They were good farmer ,good builders ,good businessmen. First ,they grew tobacco,potato,corn.And settlers also farmed chicken ,goat,and cow .Then the settlers were good builders ,because the can use many simple things to built house ,they built house of wattle and -sticks and clay.They finished just in time to stave their off their first Indians attack on May 26,1607.Their house were very useful ,so they were very good builders.Moreover settlers were good business men,because they came to Jamestown and by their working they got their own land ,their slaves ,and then they grew lot of tobacco ,dried it and sled it to other businessmen .Finally they got rich .so I think

It was not an easy beginning. In Jamestown, the first colony, new settlers had a rough start. It is a miracle that they pulled through. It was spring of 1607 was 3 ship sailed into Chesapeake Bay, located in Virginia. The ships carried more than 100 passengers. Colonist sent by the Virginia Company hoped to work off debt, own their own piece of land or later in Jamestowns history, grow tobacco as a cash crop. By the end of 1607, ,40 out of the 110 colonists were dead. Another winter and two thirds of Jamestowns population had perished. The biggest devastaion was in 1611. In that year, 80% of the colony had passed away. Why d9id Jamestown go thruogh such a harsh start? So much of the distress was caused by the type of people Jamestown's sponsers,