JAMESTOWN

JAMESTOWN

• Built on a marsh
• Land not good for farming
• Attacked by Native Americans
• Killed 347 colonists

MALARIA

• Mosquitoes carried a deadly disease
• It is called malaria and killed many people
• Only 60 people survived in Jamestown

POCAHONTAS

• Native Americans captured chief of Jamestown
• They threatened to kill him
• Pocahontas saved his life

COLONY

• In January 1608 more men arrived from England.
• In September John Smith became the leader to the colony .
• There were not enough people growing food to feed people.
• Many people came only to get gold
• They failed and made tabaco their new gold

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