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Who Starved The Colonists
The way the British attempts to force colonists to pay part of the debt was one they starved them. Two they made sure that the planning was bad when the colonists left. Three Captain John Smith elected president of the governing council-first example of popular democracy in the New World. The colonists realized that they needed money for trade so they could prosper so they sold tobacco. The colonists also known as the settlers had it hard in the beginning.
The British starved the colonists when they were ready to leave Great Britain. When they left Britain they the british did not leave the colonists any food. When Great Britain did this they thought that the colonists were going to surrender, but being determined the colonists went ahead
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One bad plan was to let colonists leave only during the winter time. The British already knew that the colonists were not rich people. For the settlers not being rich, they didn’t have enough clothing to go through the freezing waters in winter. For the most part the settlers most of the settlers died from hypothermia on the boats they went on. The second thing the British did they sent colonists out on the cold ocean waters with no food. They had to make or grow their on food before they left on the ships. On the ships they had diseases holding rats and other nasty rodents, which led to them having diseases they had no cure for or the technology to help stabilize the disease. Most people died from the disease smallpox. Smallpox is an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. So they had no way of curing a disease without the proper technology back in Great Britain. So what the British really tried to do is kill them off before reaching to their destination the new world. To me I believe there were more people on the ships on those one-hundred-and-five and four –hundred and the rest of the people died on the ships. When the colonists reach the new world they bring the sicknesses with them and they end up killing most to all the Native Americans the ones who were trying to help them. At the end the colonist do get …show more content…
John Rolfe was a business man from Heacham, England he got most of his money from the tobacco trade with the Spanish. When John Rolfe came to the new world he started trying to make tobacco himself in addition marrying the chief of the Powhatans’ daughter Pocahontas. With the tobacco he was known for the first successful cultivation of tobacco in the colony of Virginia. King James the king of England at the time hated tobacco. King James hated it so much that he wrote a pamphlet titled A Counterblast to Tobacco. By the year 1616 the Virginia Company that John Rolfe owned had invested about fifty thousand pounds to shipping and growing tobacco. In that same year one thousand seven hundred were sent Jamestown, Virginia three hundred and fifty were alive when they got there. The Virginia tobacco company sent twenty thousand pounds to Great Britain to upset King James about the taxes that he kept sending them. Each year the pounds increased by the year 1638 they sent never under three million pounds to Great Britain. The kings’ subjects didn’t pay any attention to his hatred of tobacco. As you can tell the colonist used tobacco as trading. King James did not appreciate the way the colonists tried to make amends with England. So what ends up happening King James started to tax them on everything England traded. As a result the colonists started to get highly upset about the kings taxes. It made

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