Jamestown Colony Dbq

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The reason people went on this voyage is because they might have had older siblings that inherited their parents land and money so they went over to America to get land. There were 3 ships and 144 men on the first voyage. The ship names were Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery. They traveled across the atlantic ocean to get to America. The colonist named it Jamestown Island to honor the king. They made seven people their leaders. Many colonist died of diseases and it wasn’t very successful. The colonists were also not careful with their resource and quickly ran out which was not good because they had nothing to make houses with or eat. The Jamestown colony had Indians completely surrounding it which didn’t help because they couldn’t go

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