Jamestown is known as the English’s first permanent settlement in the New World, that helped create the colonies. The settlement was not as successful as everyone thought. Colonists in Jamestown, during 1605-1609, died because of the lack of supplies, attacks from the Native groups, and disease.
Nobody denies that the colonists of Jamestown, had deaths from lack of resources. “Because the adjacent river and creeks became brackish as water levels rose, reliable sources of fresh water would have been scarce by the seventeenth century…” (Doc A) Since, fresh water was a scarce resource, colonists had to find ways to obtain drinkable water, without this vital component settlers died of hydration. “Fish are present in local streams but only in …show more content…
In Document E, it states about around One hundred and Forty people were killed by Natives. When the colonists came to the new world, the first plan of action was to begin searching for ways to gain money and ways to obtain food. One of their choices was stealing from the natives in the land, which was quite popular did. The Natives fought back killing plenty of men. “Some harshe and creulle dealinge by cutting towe of the salavages heads and other extremetyes.” (Doc D) Francis West and his men attacked and killed natives for corn and other resources. So in retaliation the natives attacked the Jamestown settlers for retribution. In Document B, the section reads of a series of droughts occurring alongside the arrival of the colonists. The Native people had beliefs that revolved around nature. When a new set of people came into their homeland and disease and death occurred with the arrival, the natives were already skeptical about the english men, but once a long six year drought occurred, the men from England were to blame in the natives religious views and became the reason to expel the colonists from the land. The bad relationship with the natives caused more and more attacks between each group of people, leaving only few …show more content…
Document A claims, “disease in the early years to Jamestown’s position at the salt-freshwater transition, where filth introduced into the river tended to fester rather than flush away.” Disease from the poor treatment of waste was due to the still water of the area of Jamestown, so all of the colonists drinking, bathing, and dumping waste area, all stayed in the same place. This leading to diarrhea and lack of medicine caused death. In Document B, one can see the percentage of rainfall and the lack of rainfall caused a drought. The drought in Jamestown caused dehydration and without the proper water for drinking lead to even more death. Document E shows around two hundred colonists died of disease between 1607 to 1610. In the first couple of years in Jamestown, over half of the population died of disease because of the lack of medicine, food, and clean drinkable water. Lack of resources and poor planning created problems in apperance of diseases, which caused an instant downfall with the
Nobody denies that the colonists of Jamestown, had deaths from lack of resources. “Because the adjacent river and creeks became brackish as water levels rose, reliable sources of fresh water would have been scarce by the seventeenth century…” (Doc A) Since, fresh water was a scarce resource, colonists had to find ways to obtain drinkable water, without this vital component settlers died of hydration. “Fish are present in local streams but only in …show more content…
In Document E, it states about around One hundred and Forty people were killed by Natives. When the colonists came to the new world, the first plan of action was to begin searching for ways to gain money and ways to obtain food. One of their choices was stealing from the natives in the land, which was quite popular did. The Natives fought back killing plenty of men. “Some harshe and creulle dealinge by cutting towe of the salavages heads and other extremetyes.” (Doc D) Francis West and his men attacked and killed natives for corn and other resources. So in retaliation the natives attacked the Jamestown settlers for retribution. In Document B, the section reads of a series of droughts occurring alongside the arrival of the colonists. The Native people had beliefs that revolved around nature. When a new set of people came into their homeland and disease and death occurred with the arrival, the natives were already skeptical about the english men, but once a long six year drought occurred, the men from England were to blame in the natives religious views and became the reason to expel the colonists from the land. The bad relationship with the natives caused more and more attacks between each group of people, leaving only few …show more content…
Document A claims, “disease in the early years to Jamestown’s position at the salt-freshwater transition, where filth introduced into the river tended to fester rather than flush away.” Disease from the poor treatment of waste was due to the still water of the area of Jamestown, so all of the colonists drinking, bathing, and dumping waste area, all stayed in the same place. This leading to diarrhea and lack of medicine caused death. In Document B, one can see the percentage of rainfall and the lack of rainfall caused a drought. The drought in Jamestown caused dehydration and without the proper water for drinking lead to even more death. Document E shows around two hundred colonists died of disease between 1607 to 1610. In the first couple of years in Jamestown, over half of the population died of disease because of the lack of medicine, food, and clean drinkable water. Lack of resources and poor planning created problems in apperance of diseases, which caused an instant downfall with the