Jamestown Colony Research Paper

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The Jamestown colony wasn’t as friendly as most think. There wasn’t a big thanksgiving feast with everyone joining together. In fact it was the complete opposite. The Indians and the colonists hated each other. And the colonists were starving. When the colonists first arrived in Jamestown, they expected the Indians to welcome their arrival, so when they went somewhere, they left their guns behind. That was not a good idea because the Indians took that chance to attack. From the beginning the colonists didn’t have much food, but about 3 months in they are starving. They are scared of the Spanish and Indians so they can’t go hunting, and they don’t really know how to farm. Because they are afraid of them, they build about a 14 foot tall wall