Jamestown Colony Analysis

The venture to establish a colony at Jamestown was designed by the Virginia Company of London, which was organized and financed the colony, that wanted its business model to extract profits from the gold, silver, and other riches supposedly to be found in that region of North America. Also, no one knew the gigantic North American continent yet, the company soon expected to find a trade route by river through Virginia to the Pacific (Price, pg 1). This method was active eight months earlier. The people believed that Jamestown would open the way for future English settlements up and down the East Coast, and eventually for the United States, itself. The English than began to find men willing to go to a new area of land; one of these men was Captain John Smith, a former soldier with an impatient nature and a total lack of respect for social behavior (Price, pg 4). “He was honest, sensible, and well informed.” Thomas Jefferson wrote about John Smith a century and a half late (Price, pg 5). On December 19th and 20th of 1606, 105 men followed the orders and walked upon the three small ships that changed history, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery (Price, Page 4) but, half of the colonist that abroad the three ships were “gentlemen”- upper- class indolents who, as event …show more content…
During this, the company wanted to established settlements up and down the East Coast, and eventually the whole United States, itself. As the settlements were being made, they wanted to follow the expected trade route by river through Virginia to the Pacific (Price, pg 4). Even though this is for the colony’s ultimate success would also come at a fearsome price: disease, hunger, and hostile natives left behind a toll of misery and death (Price, pg