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    see the land of the free. But that does not shift the people's persuasion in the chance of opportunity. Land, wilderness, gems, and more are laid throughout the America’s waiting to be claimed. Ten years later new settlers arrive 700 km north of Jamestown in a place they named Plymouth on a boat named “The Mayflower”. Driven by religious oppression they set out for a life of their own. It is proven quickly that the last of troubles is not done with the boat…

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    Jamestown Fiasco Essay

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    Jamestown Fiasco Leads To Success “By the time the colony was ten years old and an almost total loss to the men who had invested their lives and fortunes in it...” (Morgan 36). The Virginia Company had started sending settlers to the newly discovered land to set up a colony called Jamestown. The first years for Jamestown was a major disaster and the lives and colony was repeatedly saved by the Native Americans. The founding of Jamestown in 1607 was a “fiasco” because the European settlers…

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    search of a better life. The economy was on the decline and it became impossible to survive. People wanted to escape religious persecution. When I heard the Virginia Company was going to cross the ocean to the new land, many people including me wanted to go, the problem was that I didn't have enough money to pay for my passage. The Virginia Company offered to waive my fee in return of serving as a servant for five to seven years in the colony. December 20 of 1606, England, I was taken to the…

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    Early Jamestown Settlers

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    silver and Raw goods working for the Virginia Company still under the rule of King James I. These men became known as the Virginians.Crossing the Atlantic in the year 1607 and landing in the Chesapeake Bay they traveled up a river they later named the James and staked claim to land, Jamestown, loosing over 40 men. Then after the first winter and various other problems their numbers were down to 38.The Virginians of the second charter migrated to the Jamestown settlement in 1609 to help solve the…

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    member of the Virginia Company. On his fourth trip upriver looking for the Northwest Passage or Powhatan’s headquarters, he was captured. Townsend explains how some of the myths about Pocahontas such as her throwing herself over Smith to save him come from Smith’s writings which he didn’t write until 1624 when no one was left to tell otherwise. In his other writings women were always attracted to him, and he also claimed to have been adopted by Powhatan. Smith was sent back to Jamestown with…

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    John Rolfe was one of the early ambitious English settlers of the New World. During Rolfe’s existence, he had sailed for the New World only to find Jamestown, Virginia’s settlers undergo with winter famine. Rolfe is accredited with the bountiful development of tobacco as an export crop in Jamestown and is recognized as the spouse of Matoaka, otherwise known as Pocahontas, the chief 's daughter of the Powhatan Alliance. John Rolfe would define success as a triumphant cultivator of tobacco and…

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    Virginia Settlers

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    We are The Virginia Company, We were sent by the King of England himself to this land and found a new settlement. We came on ships as the first charter to form the first official settlement of the New English World. We have settled in inland by traveling in through the James River, our location gives us a great protective advantage, as well as magnificent land for farming tobacco as a way to make large amounts of money. Settlers are wanted here as a way for them to gain opportunity to start in…

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    Pocahontas Movie Essay

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    the movie Pocahontas, British settlers sailed to the New World in the ship Susan Constant, in search for rumored gold and riches in Virginia, 1607. On the rigorous journey overseas, they lost many men during a violent storm. When they arrived, they immediately began their search for gold. Captain John Smith, an honored member of the council sent to set up Jamestown, met Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan chief, for the first time almost immediately…

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    In April 1606, King James I of England granted the London Company permission to colonize southern Virginia. On December 20, 1606, the London Company sent 100 settlers to Virginia on the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed. After a brutal journey of five months at sea, the settlers landed near Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. There they founded the Jamestown colony, named after the monarch that authorized the expedition. The voyage, however, was not the only difficult part of settling in the…

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    The First Jamestown Colony

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    Jamestown Virginia was the first successful British colony in the new world this is because of the leaders and determination of the settlers. It took many failed chances from a lot of different leaders. It cost endless amounts of money and lives. The transatlantic area was still widely unknown and there was no way they could prepare for he challenges ahead. It took a lot of help from the local Native Americans however it also would be their conflicts with these Native Americans that made their…

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