Many different cultures settled into the new world in search for many different things. Most of which succeeded quite well, but the English settlers had trouble when they first settled into Jamestown. This raises the question, what caused the horrors of Jamestown? The main problem is leadership, or lack of. The lack of leadership caused them to recruit the wrong people for the settlement and pick a poor area to settle. The settlement was originally led by 6 governors who brought with them 47 gentlemen, 12 laborers and 45 other people with various occupations, all of which were male. A year later in 1608 received a 120 person resupply with the ratios of occupations being very similar. This impacted them because they had a small amount of leaders
