Jamestown Colony Research Paper

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In October 1492, the New World was “discovered” by Columbus and his men. From there on, many countries wanted their claim in the New World, and England was one of them. The English sailed into North America in May of 1607, over a century from when it was discovered, and settled on a peninsula in Virginia. The settlement is 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 of the growth of tobacco which expanded England’s economy and helped the settlers survive. …show more content…
The first group of settlers that were sent to Roanoke in 1585 was “a group of young men under military authority” and their governor was Captain Ralph Lane.1 By the end of the colony’s first winter, relationships with the coastal Carolina Algonquians had broken down completely and the colony was abandoned.1 The colonists became famous as the Lost Colonists of Roanoke. On May 24th, 1607, three English ships sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and aboard the ships were one hundred and five men and boys, having been sent by the Virginia Company of London to start a new colony and trading post. The three ships sailed up a river and named it the James River, after King James of England.2 The men landed on a peninsula in Virginia and decided to build their settlement there, and called the settlement

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