Victimization Of Jamestown

This book begins by describing all of the many different events that are occurring around the world during the year 1606, such as the opening of the play Macbeth and Galileo Galilei publishing a book of the observations of supernova in the sky. During the same year, in late December, three small ships were anchored in London’s River Thames waiting to depart to a new settlement. The three ships were the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery. The Virginia Company of London organized and financed the voyage to begin the new settlement of Jamestown. The crew is very excited to search for gold, silver, and other riches that have supposedly been found in North America. Their previous knowledge of the Spanish enrichment of gold and silver created a group dominated by money hungry, wealthy gentlemen. Aboard the ships were a great deal of gentlemen, but unfortunately lacked in soldiers and working men. The majority of the men were not accustomed to any type of hard labor, and this caused many problems because the conditions the crew were in clearly called for difficult laborious work. One of the few commoners on board was John Smith, a former soldier who proved to be a key leader to the survival of the colony. Although he was looked down upon by the upper class, he was a hard worker, and also very intelligent and a jack of all trades.

Jamestown; the birthplace of America. A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America was written on July 31st, 2008, by James Horn and published by Basic Books. While reading this book, the many Native groups that were in the Americas far before Europeans navigated there will be brought up many times. Many people just believe that the Europeans traveled to the “New World”, claimed it, and that was it. But in reality, there is so much more to the story than just claiming Jamestown. The Europeans had to go through many trials just to get to the Americas, and when they reached their destination, it was not all fine and dandy. Fights with the Natives broke out multiple times, and many of the Europeans died due to different diseases and starvation. In A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, discoveries of the many people that were involved in the process of turning the ‘New World’ into what we know today as America are explained.

From the DBQ and the video that I watched, read, and analyzed. I concluded all the theories, ways and facts of how and what killed so many of the colonist and this is my essay that includes all my research. On December 1606 the ship set sail from London to find hope, prosperity, and a new life in the New World, not realizing that this task would contain much endurance and perseverance. For they do not see the that there will be a plethora of difficulties to face such as starvation, dehydration, and disease which will lead to their inevitable death. This place is where death lurks and an extreme test against their physical and mental strengths to the absolute wits end that the human body

The English people, travelled across the ocean to get to a new land that they called America. They travelled and claimed the land that they wanted, they settled in, they succeeded from their home country, had a revolution,

Jamestown is now known as the very first permanent English settlement in the New World. However, from 1607-1610, early Jamestown constantly hovered right above the line of failure from reasons both outside the settlement and within its borders. Three main reasons the Jamestown colonists died were because of their lack of preparation, poor relations with the Native Americans, and the location of their settlement.

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

Settling Jamestown was not easy, there were many struggles. Some of these included, food supply, diseases and brackish water, and unpredictable harsh weather. These are the three main hardships settlers in Jamestown faced.

When it comes to wealth and power, people want it all for themselves. They will do anything in order to claim it and call it theirs. Some people are stronger than others, which makes their journeys easier to win over others. English colonists arrived to the New World after seeing Spanish colonization gaining wealth and being able to send gold and sliver back home. While English colonists were trying to gain wealth, they had to use Native Americans. Native Americans on Jamestown had everything that English colonists wanted, therefore they relayed on them and took advantage of the natives. The treatment of Native Americans by English colonists in Jamestown was unavoidable because English colonists arrived to the New World with a single goal, gaining wealth. English colonists and indigenous people could have never peacefully co-existed because both sides knew

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 1607, English settlers came to America to create a colony and make money. English investors helped pay for settling the James River colony. Although, 70 colonists died in the first six months. The colony known as Jamestown was settled along the Chesapeake Bay. The land inhabited by Native Americans called the Powhatans.

Jamestown had many challenges that they had to overcome in the “New World.” The topics that I am covering are, Why did so many colonists die, So many colonists died because of the starvation and of the diseases, and the Englishman went to the “New World.”  The “New World” was taking place in Jamestown during 1607-1610. The people who went to Jamestown were the English. Jamestown was a very hard life.

Through pages 79 to 87, McCullough writes about the horrible conditions that people of Johnstown had to go through as the rain was beating down and the rivers was overflowing on Friday, May 31. The people had shifted their valuables and themselves upstairs and helped others downtown evacuate as the water was rising up to a height of 10 feet, a record till ‘87. A tragic death of Joseph Ross, who drowned while evacuating others shocked the people of Johnstown and sullened their hearts, but all they could do is to make best out of this unpleasant situation. But sometime a telegraph message sent by an anonymous operator read that the South Fork Dam was going to break and advised to the people of Johnstown to prepare for the worst. But this warning

Imagine 110 colonist are arriving into Early Jamestown. Three months later, only forty men are alive. Why did so many colonists died? This is because colonist was trying to settle Jamestown, Virginia to be the first English settlement in the New World. Seventy men died of bad water/droughts/diseases, poor planning; and bad relations with Native Americans.

In addition to hard work, the colonists are working to build houses and haul supplies for the townspeople. For instance, the painting shows men building houses and hauling supplies to add on in Jamestown. In Jamestown work is essential to survival, because if the townspeople didn’t work they couldn’t earn a living .If they didn’t earn a living they couldn’t support their families. These are just 2 more examples of hard work Keith Rocco uses in Jamestown.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus found America and thought he was in India. But then in 1507 Martin Waldseemuller named America. He made one of the first maps and was naming America and thought that Amerigo Vespucci had discovered the land so he named it "America" in honor of Vespucci. Later to find out his error but it was too late to change the name, it had already stuck. Martin named America after the founder of the land. America was given its name because of Amerigo Vespucci. A shorter name for Amerigo. America was founded on July 4th, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence which announced the thirteen colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.