Charles Town Dbq

Why was it hard to move to Charles Town? Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon led approximately 600 settlers in an attempt to establish a settlement in the area Gordillo explored earlier. Unfavorable weather, sickness, low food supplies, and hostility from the natives hampered the settlement from the beginning. Near present day Beaufort along Port Royal Sound, a failed settlement attempt by the French took place in 1562 when Jean Ribault led a group of French Huguenots in search of religious freedom. The Spanish tried several more times to establish a permanent settlement but no avail. The Spanish, and to a lesser extent the French, had their eyes upon the area and did not accept the British claim of the southern coast of North America. Why was it …show more content…
If you came from the new world and the more people you brought, the more land you got and you could have huge plantations, therefore you can make a lot of money. They needed supplies and since it was a whole new world for them they didn’t know where to look for anything. In (Doc C) it states that there were plenty of predators that the people from the new world had to worry about. “There being endless Numbers of Panthers, Tigers, Wolves, and other Beasts of Prey” such as humans being prey and predators. Since they didn’t have any automatic guns to hunt until the late 1800’s so they may have used bow and arrows. These are the main reasons why It was hard to settle in Charles Town. The three main reasons why it was hard to live in Charles Town were; the Native American Rivalry, supplies, and Predators. I would imagine it to be very hard to live in Charles Town. If I were to live here in the early days I wouldn’t because I wouldn’t know anything. I basically explained the reason why not to live in Charles Town. Not even since if I didn’t have enough food or I don’t know where any food is because for all I know it could be a volcano erupting every ten minutes. Maybe if I knew that people went there for a year and came back