Jamestown Lesson

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.

Jamestown was founded in the spring of 1607. It was to be the first permanent English settlement in the “New World” - where it was commonly thought that this new land would contain riches, a myriad of hidden trade routes to China, and more! However, Jamestown wasn’t without it’s dangers - they didn’t have the best environment, most settlers had little to no survival skills, and their relationships with the Indians were strained.

There were many lesson that the colonist learned in their early Jamestown experiences. John Smith was like a director for the colonies, He had guided the colonies through survival by having the colonist learn how to farm and by the help of the local Powhatan. Later on Smith was going to return to England due to injuries,as a result of this the colonies were lost, without the leadership of John Smith the colonies deteriorated to the point of famine. The colonies were saved through high profitable crops known as Tobacco, which required load of labor. They also had the intentions of owning more land to accommodate for the increasing population in the area so they had learn how to dominate over the native people. In this essay I will be reviewing over three lesson that the colonist learned over their early Jamestown Experiences.

In spite of the many Indian massacres, Jamestown still grew to be a successful colony. The London Company was the main founder of Jamestown. The London Company's founders believed that there were precious metals in America so they sent a group of settlers to Jamestown. The trip to the Americas was not a very easy one for these settlers. They had to overcome many obstacles just to get to the Americas. In 1619 the House of Burgesses was formed which marked the first legislative body in America. Jamestown was plagued by many disasters. They were faced with one continuous disaster, Indian wars. They fought over land with Indians for many years. The London Company, creation of the colony, and

SOURCE: George Hewes, 1773 - Firsthand America, A History of the United States, David Burner, 1996.

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