How Did The Jamestown Colony Decline

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The Jamestown colony nearly failed in its early years because of the environment (the harsh cold), ignorance of cleanliness, precaution to protect their water supply, lack of skills, lack of growing good, lack of available farm land, and diseases. They did not learn how to grow their own food they depended on the English supply ships for the necessary provisions. In the early years of Jamestown they lost over eighty percent of their colonists. The important reforms and events that occurred to make Jamestown a prize possession in the British Empire was the finding, the production and exporting of tobacco. Tobacco was very profitable and was exported to England. The opportunities provided by the production of tobacco gave more people reasons