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The Jamestown Fiasco
Title: The Jamestown Fiasco
Category: History
Details: Words: 866 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Jamestown Fiasco
The Jamestown Fiasco
The mistakes made by the early settlers at Jamestown, which threatened their
survival is the fact that they didn’t harvest for themselves, but rely on Indians. During the
winter of 1609-10, things could have been better, yet 500 settlers were starving from lack
of harvesting. The result is that they showed one and only authentic examples of
cannibalism witnessed in Virginia. By the spring, only sixty of them were left alive. Also,
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but when John Rolfe tried some seeds of the West Indian variety, the result was much
better. The colonists started to plant tobacco, and in 1617, ten years after the first landing
in the Jamestown, they shipped their first cargo to England. Later, when tobacco was used
for smoking “for fun,” it changed the Virginia Company’s economy completely, for the
demand for tobacco was multiplying as more and more settlers grew tobacco.
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