Jamestown and the Settlement of North America
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Jamestown and the Settlement of North America
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John Cabot was an Italian living in England. He wanted to find his own Western route to Asia.
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In 1497 he landed in Newfoundland (Canada). He believed he was in Asia.
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England would claim all of North America because of the flag that had been planted by Cabot.
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Sir Walter Raleigh tried to start a colony on Roanoke Island, which is off the coast of North Carolina.
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Native Americans tried to teach the settlers to fish, but they were more interested in looking for gold.
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When they couldn't find gold they went home to England.
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In 1587 Raleigh sent more people to Roanoke island, but they arrived after the planting season.
Their leader, John White, went back to England to get more supplies.
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He didn't come back for three years because of fighting between England and Spain.
When he finally returned no one was there!
On a door-post he found the word "CROATOAN"
Jamestown
In 1607 merchants formed The London Company.
105 settlers and 39 sailors boarded three ships headed for Virginia.
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Their plan was to send furs and timber back to England.
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They chose to settle on a swampy piece of land that they thought they could defend from the Indians and Spanish.
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It turned out that the swamp was full of mosquitos carrying diseases and surrounded by Native Americans.
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Most of the settlers were gentleman or craftsmen so they did not know how to farm.
Furthermore, many were unwilling to learn how to farm.
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As their supplies dwindled they tried to trade with the Native Americans, but the Native Americans were resistant.
There is a myth that Pocahantas saved John Smith's life from murder by Native Americans, but
that has not been proven to be true.
The Starving Time
In 1609 John Smith was injured and returned to England.
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The colonists ran out of supplies and began to starve.
They began to eat dogs, rats, and each other.
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...driven through insufferable hunger to eat those things which nature most abhorred, the flesh and excrements of man as well of our own nation as of an Indian, digged by some out of his grave after he had laid buried there days and wholly devoured him; others, envying the better state of body of any whom hunger has not yet so much wasted as their own, lay wait and threatened to kill and eat them; one among them slew his wife as she slept in his bosom, cut her in pieces, salted her and fed upon her till he had clean devoured all parts saving her head...
440 of the 500 settlers died.
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The next spring 150 new colonists and 100 soldiers arrived in Jamestown with supplies.
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They kidnapped Pocahontas in order to force her to help arrange trade with Native Americans.
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