Why Did So Many Colonists Face Analysis

When facing challenges the colonists did not get the excitement they were expecting when coming to the New World. They were faced with a lot of unexpected deaths with their friends and families caused by diseases, they were encountered by hostile people that they never knew or heard of before called Native Americans, and they never expected to have gone through any more hardships by losing more people while being there, so when starvation took a toll on their colony it was completely unexpected.

When the settlers of the Jamestown first encountered the New World, they did not expect diseases to come along with their new settlement. With their new, uncharted territory, no one could believe it was raging with diseases, like smallpox and malaria, that they had no treatment for or no way to help nurture themselves back to health. They were too unexperienced and unprepared for the anything like …show more content…
The Native Americans had no idea who all these people were invading their land and they needed to either get them away from their territory or figure out if these people were a threat or not. The first attack on the colonist happened three days after the colonists’ arrival to Jamestown. The Native Americans finally worked some things out realizing that the colonists were not that much of a threat if they would stick to just that one area so the Native Americans would know exactly where they were. The colonists realized that they could use some of the Native agricultural, like corn, to survive and the Native Americans had other Native enemies, meaning that since the colonists had weapons, it would have been the best idea to make acquaintances with the colonists in case something with their enemies broke out. This made the colonists and the Native Americans come together in an uneasy