Early Jamestown Research Paper

Jamestown is located in present day Virginia. These colonists in Virginia were located by the Chesapeake Bay. The colonists met the Powhatan Indians on their journey to Jamestown. The three topics in this essay about these colonists are Disease/Sickness, Weather, and Native American Conflict. The first topic is Sickness/Disease. The colonists started getting sick and dying because they didn't know where else to dump their waste. Document "A" says that the colonists dumped their waste into the river thinking that it would wash out to sea, but instead the tides pushed it up the river to their "clean" water along with more salt water. Another reason is that they didn't have a lot of surgeons/doctors. Document "C" says that they only have 1 surgeon for 100 men. So the colonists didn't have that much of good health. The next topic is Weather. The Jamestown colonists might of died by the weather. These people might of died by the "starving time." Document "B" says that the "starving time" was a drought and/or winter. If it was the
The colonists who came to Virginia met the Powhatan Indians, who helped the colonists out a little bit. The colonists might of died from diseases. This might of been because the colonists would dump their waste into the river, thinking that it would wash out to the ocean, but instead, the tides pushed the dirty water and extra salt water up to the "clean" drinking water. If the water was contaminated, their irrigation system and wells would be full of the "brackish" water, which would kill the colonists. "Brackish" water means dirty or unclean water. There was only one surgeon for 100 men, and if people needed surgeries, the surgeon probably doesn't wash the tools, so germs are being passed on from one person to another. They also probably didn't have enough medicine or the right kind of medicine. So out of all of these reasons, the colonists probably died mostly of