they ran out of food
they ran out of food
Lack of food was the most pressing problem.
they ran out of food
religious freedom
they ran out of food (Apez)
they ran out of food
The colonists where looking for gold instead of farming and the colony was in the middle of a swamp.
they ran out of food
In 1690 they arrived at Jamestown on board a Portuguese ship looking for food, whose people traded them for food. The slaves were all captured from an African country called Angola
because they have secret spy looking out.
When Jamestown was settled by the 107 men who arrived in VA they settled in a poor spot. The land was swampy, the water bad, the mosquito's carried disease, and the Native Americans were not happy that they were there. Instead of getting to work and creating a settlement they built a fort and began to look for gold. The men who came didn't come to settle, but to get rich. Within the first 3 months of the 107 men who had arrived only 36 were left alive. They died of disease, and battles with the Native Americans. Recent research has shown that there was also a Spanish spy among the men in Jamestown. In 1608 400 new settlers came to Jamestown but by the summer of 1609 there were only 90 left alive.
When the Jamestown colony was built in Virginia, all the colonists were looking for was gold. When there was no gold found except for pyrite (fake gold), the colonists discovered the cash crop of tobacco. The trade of tobacco raised their profits so much that King James called tobacco the "golden leaf" meaning that the tobacco was there form of gold.