Settlement of Jamestown...?

Question

Hello everyone. I am doing an essay on Jamestown. If you know any imformation about Jamestown,Va please let me know about it. Feel free to leave links. Thankyou everyone.

Answer 1

Hey NYNIKKI,

In June of 1606, King James I granted a charter to a group of London entrepreneurs, the Virginia Company, to establish a satellite English settlement in the Chesapeake region of North America. By December, 108 settlers sailed from London instructed to settle Virginia, find gold and a water route to the Orient. Some traditional scholars of early Jamestown history believe that those pioneers could not have been more ill-suited for the task. Because Captain John Smith identified about half of the group as "gentlemen", it was logical, indeed, for historians to assume that these gentry knew nothing of or thought it beneath their station to tame a wilderness. Recent historical and archaeological research at the site of Jamestown suggest that at least some of the gentlemen and certainly many of the artisans, craftsmen, and laborers that accompanied them all made every effort to make the colony succeed.

Answer 2

Pocahontas and John Smith, the Disney moview was based off of the Jamestown settlement. Historically background information. John Smith was the leader of the settlers and was angry because the majority of the settlers just wanted to look for gold. Unlike the other oringial settlements around the 13 colonies Jamestowns was settlers were more interested in gold and no religious freedom. John Smith had to work hard to convince the people to build shelter and farm in order to survive. The location was not good because of insects and disease spread quickly and water supply wasn't good. The settlers died out. That is a brief summary of what happened.

Answer 3

you will have the skill to locate a ton of stuff on Jamestown because of the fact it extremely is the four-hundredth anniversary of it extremely is founding (1607). Do a commonplace google seek. There could be an extremely historic internet site that should grant you a "existence and circumstances" during the era. that must be a stable leaping off element.

Answer 4

I live in Virginia Beach, so I have gone to Jamestown often, some helpful sites may be:


http://www.apva.org/history/

http://www.tobacco.org/History/Jamestown.html

Answer 5

Here's a good source:

http://www.apva.org/history/