History Of Jamestown Environment

Jamestown was the 1st permanent English settlement found in 1967. The colony established the tradition of self representative government and slavery thanks to the colonies environment. Jamestown was started from a charter the Virginia Company received from King James. The goal of this settlement was to gain money and riches but this was an issue since the men in Jamestown began to only want gold. The settlers were lazy since they were not used to work and it wasn’t until a man named John Smith came in and turned things around. John Smith was a soldier and a explorer and taught the settlers military discipline in order to get them to work. He would force the settlers to work for food and take expeditions in order to get enough food for the settlers.
Jamestown's environment played a huge role in how successful the colony would be. Since the environment was good for farming they were able to take advantage by making tobacco , which the natives taught them , and was eventually able to bring the money the Virginia Company while also increasing the population of settlers. This caused a motivation of money and environment which led to plantation style farming. Jamestown set the precedent for all other colonies and was it important because of it. Jamestown also began plantation slavery and the precedent for government and the rights of Englishmen in the future. Jamestown led a course towards the Civil War because it started a precedent for what the south would be and represent – Farming and Slavery – which would later have a huge impact on sectionalism causing the North and South to become different and cause many arguments, again , further splitting them