Early Jamestown Dbq

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Jamestown, one of the first groups to set foot on this place we call, North America. Jamestown referred to North America as the New World, since they did not know what to call it. The English arrived in 1607, the English had a very difficult time in the New World. Which mainly led to death. Many Jamestown colonists died because of, sickness, water difficulties, and starvation. To begin, water was a huge problem. It affected many, not in a good way. To quote, “Because the adjacent river and creeks became brackish as water levels rose…”(Document A). With the water being contaminated with salt water it restricts the people to being able to ingest it. They had thought of a solution, that solution was to make wells. The wells would

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