Aim: How did the colonists overcome the challenges faced as they settled the New

World?

Export-to ship (products) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etcCash crop-any crop that is considered easily marketable, as wheat or cotton. Jamestown- a village in East Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607

English Settlement in Virginia

Skill – Primary Source Analysis• Read through the following primary source with your

partner and answer the analysis questions. Richard Frethorne's Account of His Plight in Virginia, 1623Background • Richard Frethorne was a colonist who wrote a series of

letters to his parents in March and April of 1623, describing his hardships in Jamestown. This selection is an excerpt from those letters.

Questions1. Who is Richard Frethorne writing to? Why is he writing to them?

2. How does Frethorne describe his new life in Jamestown? Is he happy to be there? Why or why not?  3. Why do you think Frethorne and his friends were not allowed to hunt fowl? What was the work they might have been doing that prevented them from doing so?   4. What do you think Frethorne's position was in society? What makes you think so? 5. Why do you think settlers continued to sail to Virginia when conditions were so bad there?

Challenges Faced in JamestownChallenges Settlers Faced Based on Reading

1. Conflict with Native Americans

2. Location

3. Starvation

4. Poor Leadership

Making Jamestown Successful

Solutions:1. Conflict with Native Americans

2. Location

3. Starvation

4. Poor Leadership

Summary

• If you were a settler in Jamestown, how would you help make the colony a success?