commonly known as the Jamestown colony. The Jamestown colony was the English’s second settlement in the New World, after the disappearance of the first, Roanoke. The settlers experienced many deaths due to disease and starvation, the ground was too poor for the crops the settlers knew how to grow, and out of three people that would settle there, two of them would die. The Jamestown colony faced many hardships in the New World, but it is known as the first successful English colony, and this is a result…
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