Perfect Society in Jamestown
Founded in 1607 by Captain John Smith, Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the New world, and evolved creating a perfect society that expanded throughout the new world by establishing relationships with the natives, government, and utilizing the land for farming. When the English arrived in Jamestown after the first year about two thirds of the population died from weather and shortage of supplies. Smith went out on a trading expedition and was captured by a Powhatan hunting party and eventually taken before Chief Powhatan. While Smith was hostile, he thought his life was being threatened, (however many people believe that the Powhatan tribe was performing a play like ritual) until Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, …show more content…
When people of color voyaged to Jamestown later that year and became enslaved, they were able to work on tobacco farms and farmers made huge profits. Owning land was instantly one of the biggest profitable solutions for the New World. Societies grew and people made more money. At this point everyone wanted to come to the new world to establish his or her own land. While farming was a huge success, John Smith dominated the town council of Jamestown in 1619, and enforced harsh discipline on those who broke his rules. The settlement adopted the first representative government the new world had seen later that year called the House of Burgesses. This sense of government expanded throughout the new world in the 1600s. As the new World was in its early stages of evolving around ninety young, educated women were shipped to become wives of the settlers. This shipment assured population growth in the new world and possible settlements in the future. The new world was evolving from the base Jamestown perfect society acting as a model society in the 1600s and without forming a relationship with the natives, constructing a government, and utilizing the land for farming, America
Founded in 1607 by Captain John Smith, Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the New world, and evolved creating a perfect society that expanded throughout the new world by establishing relationships with the natives, government, and utilizing the land for farming. When the English arrived in Jamestown after the first year about two thirds of the population died from weather and shortage of supplies. Smith went out on a trading expedition and was captured by a Powhatan hunting party and eventually taken before Chief Powhatan. While Smith was hostile, he thought his life was being threatened, (however many people believe that the Powhatan tribe was performing a play like ritual) until Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, …show more content…
When people of color voyaged to Jamestown later that year and became enslaved, they were able to work on tobacco farms and farmers made huge profits. Owning land was instantly one of the biggest profitable solutions for the New World. Societies grew and people made more money. At this point everyone wanted to come to the new world to establish his or her own land. While farming was a huge success, John Smith dominated the town council of Jamestown in 1619, and enforced harsh discipline on those who broke his rules. The settlement adopted the first representative government the new world had seen later that year called the House of Burgesses. This sense of government expanded throughout the new world in the 1600s. As the new World was in its early stages of evolving around ninety young, educated women were shipped to become wives of the settlers. This shipment assured population growth in the new world and possible settlements in the future. The new world was evolving from the base Jamestown perfect society acting as a model society in the 1600s and without forming a relationship with the natives, constructing a government, and utilizing the land for farming, America