Jamestown Argumentative Essay

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Imagine waking up on a ship filled with salty sea dogs being possibly sea sick or just plain starving; this is what the European settlers went through. They went across the ocean just so they could just own a another chunk of monopoly in the New World. They went through tough times for this chunk of monopoly and why for power or to be the one with the most land. They came for many reasons and these reasons will include gold land and materials. From how they settled, to where they went, and their final outcome, Spain, France and England conquered the new world .

Spain, the way Spain settled is they came into the new world and basically enslaved the Indians, they enslaved them by coming into their territory and just taking over. They went
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Jamestown is a place that went from horrible to moderate to ok. They took on trouble from the starving times of disease and trouble with the Indians, yes trouble neither of the other colonies had as much trouble as Jamestown but neither of the other colonies had someone in their group marry an Indian. They suffered through starving times for two main reasons, one of the reasons was that they were either blacksmiths or noble men and women meaning they had no clue on how to farm no clue at all. The second reason is when their food supply ran short, they tried an tried to trade with the Indians, but none of them would trade with them. So one day when most the English men and women were on boats a widower named John Rolfe though he had already helped his colon out by finding a crop that would sell in England and grown in Virginia; Tobacco was the crop and was sold for good prices. John Rolfe was about to help the English colonies even more by marrying a native American prisoner who had learned English and adopted the Christian faith this prisoner was Pocahontas. Though it was an unusual match chief Powhatan thought that it would end the conflict between the two places . -cited from European Exploration and Settlement page 29 Jamestown Survives

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