Explain Why Was It Difficult To Settle In Charles Town

Why Was it Difficult to Settle in Charleston?
Why was it difficult to settle in Charles Town? It was hard to settle in Charles Town because of the geography, the competition with the natives for natural resources, and diseases like smallpox. There is also shortages of food, supplies, men, harsher weather, and new threatening animals. The English settlers had to deal with problems, such as finding a place to settle, growing crops, fighting with the natives, and disease. Geography was one reason why settling in Charles Town was difficult. According to the map on document A, the cartographer, or map maker would have trouble getting the landscape accurate, because compared to maps nowadays, those maps would be inaccurate. There seems to be a lot of natural resources like trees, grass, and
water.
Water can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. Some advantages would be that there would be enough to drink, you could go fishing, and the water provides transportation. The disadvantages with having water close to where you lived would be that the crops could get flooded, your house might flood, and the area around the water could flood to. It would be difficult to to settle in Charles Town because the maps were untrustworthy, grow crops because the land in some parts were rockey, and to build a house on the rocky land. Natural Resources was the second reason why it was hard to settle in Charles Town. The land was flat and some of it was already cleared by the Indians. The land that was already cleared would be most desirable to the colonists, because the work to clear it was already done. There was a lot of space for a pasturage, a pasturage was a place where you could place your cattle. The pasturage was next to a riverbank, to the cattle can get water when the wanted to. According to document B, the land was more beautiful than a work of art. This means that there is wide open plains, fine savannahs, and there are natural lawns. The
type of soil they found was rich, black mould , and mould of a copper color. The wildlife that the colonists found was Panthers, Tigers, wolves, and other Beasts of Prey. One problem that you could have encountered was the natives. The natives and the colonists were trying to find their own natural resources. Another problem could have been that there was not enough resources for both the colonists and the natives, so that would mean that they would have had to fight for the natural resources. Charles Town was difficult to settle in was because of the animals. The animals might attack you when they went out to hunt at night. The third and final reason of why Charles town was hard to settle in, was because of sickness. In document E Eliza Pinckney says “that there is a great cloud over this province.” What she means is there is a cloud of sickness, or smallpox. The smallpox put all trade with other countries to a stop. This is because none of the other countries wish to become sick. The people in Charles Town were lucky that the smallpox did not spread to another part of the country. This is also bad, because the sickness sayed in Charles Town, and infected everyone. It was difficult to settle in Charles town, because of the smallpox making almost everyone sick, also no one wanted to trade with them, due to the diseases. In conclusion, Charleston was difficult to settle in because of geography, natural resources, and diseases.