Jamestown: A Story of Survival and Struggle

1. Jamestown By Hannah White

2. The colonists arrived at Jamestown on May 13th, 1607

3. Goals To find a way to the Pacific Ocean Establish a colony And to find gold. Obstacles They knew they were going to meet Indians, but they didn’t know what their reaction would be. Housing materials Food source Goals and Obstacles

4. Colony Population 1608-1610

5. Colony Death Reasons • 7 out of 10 people died in what was called the “Starving Time”. It was a ratio of 7:10. • Water was one of the main reasons people died. • The colonists were so hungry the were forced to eat dead bodies, horses, dogs and even cats. • Most of them died with-in four months. • Every step away from camp could of possibly of been their last.

6. The Jamestown Fort • The Jamestown fort was built in only 19 days. • The fort was designed around the guns. • The fort stretched along the James river.

7. John Smith was the most important person in the colony. His journal is the primary source of the Jamestown story. John got his leg blown of from an “accidental” explosion sparked by his gun powder bag. He returned home in the fall of 1605. He was the bravest one in the colony because he went up to the Indian Chief Powatan and made a deal with him. Sparkly jewels for food. The colony had to face their 3rd year alone John Smith

8. John Smith Map of Virginia drawn by John Smith

9. The Indians • The Indians were one of the things that helped the colony survive, or at least for a little while. • They used what was called the hit and run tactics for taking out the colony. • Their bows and arrows were light and extremely accurate.

10. What Saved the Colony? What did save the colony from total destruction anyway? • The answer: tobacco.

11. Extra Facts • Every man, woman, and child drank about a gallon of beer each day. • The reigning superpower was fame. • Spies were common in the 20th century. • The buried their dead colonists inside of the fort walls, but their 1st Capitan, Bart Gosnold, was buried outside of the walls to show that they were losing a ton of colonists and they were on the edge of death to the entire colony.