Jamestown Virginia Colony

The Virginia Company funded Jamestown in 1606 to get money by finding gold

There were many problems in Jamestown after the settlers arrived. Many of the original settlers died from starvation and various diseases. They also had to combat angry Native American Indians who didn't want them on their land.

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some problems or difficulties were location, starvation, drought, disease, Indians, and preparation.

The Jamestown colony was able to prosper in spite of many hardships because John Rolfe started the tobacco industry, which brought in a lot of money.

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The colony of Jamestown was not named after St. James. Instead, it was named after James VI (King of Scotland) and James 1 (King of England).

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It's the Roanoke Colony you are talking about, actually. Same place, different people. Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America.

Before the Jamestown people settled there, there had been a colony living there called the Roanoke colony. Nobody knows what happened to the Roanoke settlers. It seems they just vanished without a trace one day. No bodies were found, even. All of the houses had been deliberately dismantled, so apparently they did not leave in a hurry. The only clue ever found were two carvings in two different tree trunks, which read, "Croatoan," and "Cro," respectively.

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people could watch ships.

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In 1607, England found Jamestown on the coast of present -day Virginia.

Tobacco was important because when John Rolfe started growing and selling it, tobacco made money for the colony!

the people are from england. so they are english.

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The address of the Jamestown Area Historical Society is: Po Box 162, Jamestown, OH 45335-0162

No one knows for sure what all the Indians' names were because everyone in Jamestown just called them, "Powhatan" because that was the name of the tribe that lived in the area at that time... However, one Powhatan's name we are absolutely sure of, her name was Pocahontas. Pocahontas supposedly saved the founder of Jamestown, John Smith's, life.

John Rolfe held the key ti Jamestown's success. By 1612, Rolfe's new strains of tobacco had been successfully cultivated and exported. Finally, a cash crop to export had been identified, and plantations and new outposts sprung up, initially both upriver and downriver along the navigable portion of the James River, and thereafter along the other rivers and waterways of the area. The settlement at Jamestown could finally be considered permanently establishe

how did the use of indentured servant help and hurt the Jamestown settlement

they looked for gold

In this time everyone was Catholic.

The population of the Jamestown settlement varied in the 1600's due to several factors, specifically disease, starvation, and poor relations with native Americans. Originally 107 colonists came over to settle the colony. More colonists came over, bringing the total up to 500... but due to poor location and other factors (swampland that had stagnant water, which led to poor health) only 61 of the original settlers survived the winter of 1609-1610, known as "the starving time".

After much needed supplies and more settlers arrived from Lord De La Warr (Delaware later named after him in honor of saving Jamestown), the population stabilized and steadily grew. But in 1622, when the population was about 1,000, a surprise attack by the Powhatan tribe slaughtered around a third of the population, and again in 1644.