different reasons: Gold and God. Virginia was founded in 1607 by John Smith who came from England and built the colony Jamestown. This was the first settlement in North America for England. Jamestown was mainly founded for economics and financial profits. The British sent people who they were sure to find riches. Virginia was colonized by mainly Individuals. Few families came to Jamestown.
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Jamestown Diary of William Wilkinson‚ Surgeon December 5‚ 1606 I am a surgeon. I give medicine to people who are sick. I use needles‚ medicine‚ scissors‚ and lots more stuff. I might take bullets out of people. I don’t really work with others except my assistant. My assistant brings people into my house. He helps me get the tools. My assistant’s name is Ben. I have a big family. I have a wife named Anne. She likes to cook bread. I have four children. Their names are James‚ Emily‚ Sarah‚ and Kathryn
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Death equals harm and not a lot of forgiveness. From 1607-1611‚ a lot of brave colonists die at Jamestown‚ mostly because of what they did. When Christopher Columbus started traveling the ocean‚ he had know idea he would land in the Americas. Francis West mostly went up to Chesapeake Bay to try and trade for corn. Colonists died in early Jamestown because of three main problems. These problems were having bad water‚ relations between the Indians and the Colonists‚ and having the wrong occupations
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colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth had several similarities as well as differences. The colonists of both colonies had an extremely harsh first winter‚ had treaties and traded with the Natives with an overall good relationship with them and who had both their Kings beheaded. The similarities continued over time‚ like building their own houses‚ having every colonist required to work‚ and not given what they were promised for going to the New World. Although the colonies of Plymouth and Jamestown have many
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When the colonists first came to the New World in 1607‚ they settled near a river‚ naming the river ‘The James’. James Fort‚ a colony the people had built near James River‚ was renamed Jamestown in honor of Kind James 1 of England who was ruling at the time. The men of Jamestown didn’t build decent shelters and didn’t know how to farm‚ causing starvation for them all. Their luck changed however‚ once they found and grew tobacco‚ making them rich and able to feed themselves Under King James 1
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After this slavery began appear in Jamestown. In the 1700 slavery increased once the need for labor in growing tobacco was need. That ultimately started and grew the slave trade. Wait hasn’t slavery been around for a long time? Well that’s correct African kings would go into battle with each other. These kings would send their strongest warriors to capture the other tribe and bring back the other tribes people. What the king would do with those people is basically turn them into slaves and either
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i highly encourage you to experience it for yourself. The trip over was not great‚ but it was nothing to complain about. We landed here in Cape Henry in April safely. Shortly after landing‚ we started a new settlement elsewhere which we named Jamestown. This is the first european settlement in the new world‚ and it is and will be successful. When we first arrived our primary goal was to build houses and fences. We did hasty work on the houses‚ which proved to be a downfall when winter came.
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Imagine living in a world where the government controlled: what goods you could produce‚ the quantities of goods you could produce‚ and the price of those goods. Nothing was in your realm of jurisdiction. This may sound familiar to some. This type of economy is known as a controlled or planned economy‚ some communist countries use this economic system‚ such as‚ Cuba‚ North Korea‚ and the former Soviet Union. Now‚ let’s jump to the other side of the economic spectrum to free enterprise or free market
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Jamestown was founded in 1607 by Captain John Smith. John Smith was a soldier‚ explorer and an adventurer. Smith was the leader of Jamestown from 1607 to 1608. Many of the settler were not fond of Smith because of his strict discipline government policies. Smith believed if he would have remain leader of Jamestown the people would have experienced better conditions than what they did. John Smith returned to England in 1608 after a gunpowder accident. George Percy took over control of Jamestown after
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