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Why is the Jamestown settlement important?
i had this question too and nobody had an answer to it!! someone needs to anwer it!!!!!!!!! Jamestown colony is important to England because it was the first English settlement after many years of failure.
Why did people die in jamestown?
There are several reasons why they died. When they landed they chose the worst area to settle and build a fort. The James River was a bad source for water because it was swampy and would back up. Disease took many of the 104 men within 6 months and the men didn't come to settle the land but look for gold and fortunes and didn't plant crops. If the 14,000 Native Americans living there had wanted them out all they had to do is attack the fort, but they didn't do that for over 20 years after the first men arrived. The Jamestown colony made many bad decisions and it cost them lives.
What happened in 1619 that would affect the U.S for centuries?
Along with the the first representative legislative assembly in the New World, 1619 also marked the arrival of the first recorded Africans to English North America, the recruitment of English women in significant numbers, the first official English Thanksgiving in North America, and the entrepreneurial and innovative .
Who were many of the early puritan settlers of America?
uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England
How many presidents came from Maryland?
Two.
