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    Settlement houses | People and groups involved * Jane Addams * Ellen Gates * Janie Porter Barrett Links * www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jane_Addams * www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWstarr.htm * www.socialwelfarehistory.com/people/barrett-janie-porter People and groups involved * Jane Addams * Ellen Gates * Janie Porter Barrett Links * www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jane_Addams * www.spartacus.schoolnet

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    colonists from England arrived in the New World and formed a settlement in the Colony of Virginia. In the winter of 1609-1610‚ all but 60 of the 900 colonists died due to their mistakes. The settlers came to the New World unprepared‚ expecting to be able to trade with the Natives for food and supplies‚ but eventually were not able to. Overall‚ the settlement failed due to its dependency on outside resources and lack of skills needed to make a settlement successful. When trade was not available for the settlers

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    Love and Hate in Jamestown

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    aware of the dichotomy between fact and fiction. This is brilliantly explained in David A. Price’s‚ Love and Hate in Jamestown. Price describes a more robust account of events that really did take place in the poorly run‚ miserable‚ yet evolving settlement of Jamestown‚ Virginia; and engulfs and edifies the story marketed by Disney and others for young audiences. Price reveals countless facts from original documents about the history of Jamestown and other fledgling colonies‚ John Smith‚ and Smith’s

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    failed to realize was the hardships it would take to make a settlement in a new land. Colonists faced hard ships such as the poor environment‚ unskilled colonists‚ and conflicts with the Native Americans As a result of poor environment several of the Jamestown colonists died. The Virginia company traveled through the Chesapeake Bay and up the James River to an island. This is where the colonists decided to build their settlement. Most of the land on the island was swampy and some areas had

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    Virtual Field Trip Project Template I. Grade Level: Fourth II. Topic: The First English Settlement A. A Virtual Field Trip to Jamestown Settlement III. Standards: Specific Virginia Standard(s) of Learning the lesson is designed to meet (or your state standards of learning): VS.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the first permanent English settlement in America by a) explaining the reasons for English colonization; b) describing how geography influenced the

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    and young 15 year old Q’orianka Kilcher’s performance as Pocahontas. (Boehm 1-5) The movie opens up to three ships of settlers sailing up the James River in Southeastern Virginia‚ arriving at the soon to be settlement of Jamestown. While establishing the foundations of the first settlement‚ Captain Newport and a young John Smith make peaceful‚ first contact with groups of Natives. As time moves on‚ John Smith is elected to travel further up the James River to become acquainted/ raid local tribes

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    Jamestown Dbq Analysis

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    but why had so many colonists died in the early years of Jamestown? These English colonists arrived from their long journey across the pacific to the shores of the “new world” in the spring of 1607 and they were ready to start the first permanent settlement‚ but this was to be no easy task. They would have to face the difficult task of finding the resources they need‚ unsanitary conditions‚ and dealing with the Natives. Many of people of early Jamestown; which is considered early because

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    Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement to be established in what is now the United States. The majority of the settlers of Jamestown died from various reasons. Conflict was very much present with the Native Americans living in the area. Food was in short supply. Disease ravaged the settlement multiple times and finally the environment took a toll on the settlers of Jamestown. Native American conflict caused the deaths of over a hundred Jamestown settlers over the course of three years

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    Organization Society leader wrote what is Social Casework? a. Jane Addams b. Mary Richmond c. Grace Abbott d. Sophinisba Breckinridge 3. ___ is an early pioneer in the Settlement House Movement. a. Mary Richmond b. Harriet Bartlett c. Florence Hollis d. Jane Addams 4. The first Black settlement house in the United States was founded by ___. a. Janie Porter Barrett b. Lugenia Burns Hop c. Sarah Fernandis d. Mary Eliza Church Terrell 5. ___ was a policy maker

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    Social Problem of the Industrial Age How was the Social Problem addressed during the Industrial Age (social movement‚ law‚ etc.)? Was the Social Problem addressed successfully? Be sure to support your opinion with evidence from the lesson or your research. Is the Social Problem still an issue today? How? Child Labor Child labor quite common back then because all the members of a family had to help with income. They did dangerous and hard work made for adults just to get ridiculed‚ taken advantage

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