what hardships did the colonists face in the early years of settlement?

Answer 1

food, water, being able to survive without getting diseases such as plague. i found this online......

“When I came to Virginia in my youth with my 104 contemporaries in the year of our Lord 1607, I believed I was coming to a place of opportunity, a place where all my dreams of prosperity and wealth would come true, however I was proven wrong. In those first years after arriving to the colony, I watched as my contemporaries drop dead from we have come to know as the “seasoning” a deadly phase of illness that occurs with the changing of the seasons. I watched as the settlement struggled through to amass enough food to last us through the harsh winters….”
In history classes in elementary school and in high school we are told that the Jamestown settlement almost resulted in failure but we are never taught the total picture of why Jamestown almost failed. So why did Jamestown almost fail? There is one answer to this question; there are many factors that led to the hardships the colonists faced.
If you have ever been to the Jamestown settlement (the real location of the settlement not the reenactment area) you will know that the fort was located on a peninsula jutting into the tidal river, the Potomac. According to Carville Earle one of the reasons the colonists suffered from the seasoning is because Jamestown had very poor sanitation and sewage methods, everything went into the river. During the hot summers all this garbage and waste was contained around the fort due to the tides of the Potomac, and it sat there festering, a wonderful breeding ground for pathogens that cause diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. The since they were so conveniently located close the river they were also drawing their water for drink, cooking, etc…. this was the river they were dumping everything into. No wonder they were getting sick.
Another reason Carville Earle suggests for the “seasoning” was the fact that the colonists were living so close together, this created numerous problems. For one thing living so close together concentrated the wasted being dumped into the river. Another thing was that if one person was sick those around them were much more likely to contract it there for creating an epidemic (think of how the black plague started, tightly packed cities, right?) At the archeological site, I was able to see the relative size of the original fort, which wasn’t that big, one side of the triangle was 140’, the other was 100’, and the other which hasn’t been completely excavated yet was probably around 100’ as well, the I imagine that 100 people in that fort were pretty tightly packed.
One of the second leading factors that lead to hardships for the colonists was the fact that they were not sufficiently or effectively working/planting enough food to last them through the winter. Mr. Edmund Morgan suggests that the laziness and idleness of the settlers lead to their suffering. The early settlers made excuses not to due work expecting another shipment of immigrants to arrive to do it for them, they knew that they would be paid and feed by the Virginia Company regardless of the amount of work they did, the colonists were also living under martial law, a law that is based on routines and everyone shares the same load, however the colonists were doing enough work (they only worked 8 hours a day {Morgan, 10}) to sufficiently provide themselves with a surplus of food for the winter. Since we know that the colonists were not starving but did have a limited diet which led to most of them being malnourished during the winter, when summer time comes around and there immune system is depressing they contracted typhoid, etc. from the festering waters much more easily.
Now that this cycle of malnourishment and “the seasoning” has began another problem leads to the settlements problem and it all starts with a man named Richard Hakluyt. Richard wrote a very persuasive document which contributed to the attitude that England should send more men to the colonies so more men will settle to make money for the crown. This was not such a great idea because now the settlement was even more crowded and did not have enough supplies to support it.

Answer 2

Early Colonist

Answer 3

in 1609-1610, harsh weather hit and death and disease were soon to follow. This period became known as The Starving Time, and although the colony had grown to 500 people, around 440 of these inhabitants died off. Needless to say, if you were a colonist, your chances of survival were pretty slim To survive, the settlers became scavengers, eating dogs, horses, rats and snakes.
The promise of land had attracted farmers, merchants and gentlemen who could not acquire land at home in England. The hope for a better life had attracted commoners who were trying to escape hunger, disease and crowded living conditions and trying to break the cycle of poverty in the New World. Yet now instead of riches, the settlers were faced with the daily struggle to survive.

Answer 4

nicely, the colonists are the 1st (save for the "lost Colony" of Roanoke) so they do no longer in all probability have something to bypass on. they could desire to be certain a thank you to enhance nutrition (or hunt nutrition) on thoroughly unfamiliar territory. they could desire to study to guard against the tough jamestown winters, so they're in a position to evade ailments. Out of the unique one hundred colonists that got here from England, in easy terms 60 survived the sea adventure. by skill of 1625, over 8,000 human beings had tried to settle in Jamestown. in easy terms a million,two hundred of those colonists survived. simply by loss of nutrition, colonists have been decreased to eating cats, dogs, rats, or perhaps different human beings. that they had land issues: it replace right into a swampy area that the colonists did no longer extremely know a thank you to apply to their benefit. This swampy marsh area additionally further approximately rampant ailment (like malaria). that they had exertions issues: quite everyone had to be a pacesetter, no longer a worker. community weren't reliable for exertions, simply by fact they died from ailment extremely, and (understanding the terrain greater desirable) could desire to run away. management issues: as already pronounced, quite everyone had to be a pacesetter, so they did no longer extremely have a pacesetter (until John Smith and John Rolfe)

Answer 5

pretty much the same types of issues the colonists face today when they approach something no one knows about....mostly how to find or create shelters, how to make and find food, how to make or replace neccessary weapons, and how to commuincate and co-habitate with the local animals and people

Answer 6

Native Americans, adapting to american enviorment (south: swamp, humidity, misquitos/north: rocky thin soil not good for growing crops) the cold winters and creating stable homes.

Answer 7

Disease, conflict with the Indians, no food

Answer 8

Which colonists?
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