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jamestown

Published on Nov 30, 2015

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jamestown

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Jamestown was the first English settlement founded in 1607.Jamestown served as the capital of the colony for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699 After a particularly long voyage of five months including a stop in Puerto Rico, they arrived on April 10, 1607.

England arrived at Jamestown with 400 hungry mouths to feed. The colony had gone through so much, with horrible living conditions resulting in the deaths of many. The colony saw the worst when the man who had been struggling for so long to keep the colony together, Captain John Smith, was injured and had to go back to England.

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  • Jamestown suffered from bad deceases 
  • tobacco was a big deal in jamestown
  • the  Indians helped the settlers survive 

Jamestown has changed the world cause without the founding of Jamestown the world might not be the way it is right now.

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