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Jamestown Settlement | Jamestown Colony | Educational story for kids

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Have you ever wondered about how people colonized America? This lesson focuses on the first English settlement in North America, Jamestown. Watch the video from Kid's Academy and then complete the lesson.

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Do you imagine life at the Jamestown settlement was easy or hard? What makes you think that?


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Avatar for Asiyah Cleveland
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I think that the Jamestown settlement was really hard because of food shortages and diseases that had spread to their country, conflicts with the Native Americans, lack of resources and terrible weather.


Avatar for Isaac Velasquez
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I believe it would be hard as you would have to do everything yourself to survive. You had to make your own clothes, house and food. We know that the last one was particularly hard evident from the starving time from 1609-1610.


Avatar for Nathalie Nabine
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I think that life at the Jamestown settlement was very hard because of the issues with food shortages, diseases that were spead, conflicts with the Native Americans, terrible weather, and lack of resources.


Avatar for Devyn Stearns
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We think it was hard. First, they had to source their own food. They also had to build their own houses. They did not have electricity or plumbing so they had to do things on their own.


Avatar for Gray Kreps
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I think it was very hard because the things they had back then are way less developed than the things we have today. They had to put a lot more work in and they also had to be aware of attacks and other things which made life hard at Jamestown.


Avatar for Chauncey Hudson
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I think life at the Jamestown settlement was a harsh environment. At first, the settlers thought the site was ideal. Unfortunately in the summer, the site turned into a swamp filled with mosquitoes and poisonous water. In the winter, it was unprotected from the harsh winter storms and became bitterly cold.


Avatar for J Meyer
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I think it was hard because the things that they had were no where close to as developed as the thing that we have today.


Avatar for Lirio Rojas Lopez
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difficult, because he did things because they forced him


Avatar for Bailey Arellano Diaz
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I think it was hard because they suffer from many things like from diseases and germs from water, The climate was terrible and some of them were killed or kidnapped from the Powhatan even though sometimes it was easy because they had resources sometimes.


Avatar for Jesse King
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Hard but got easier as they settled and got supplies and a renewable source of food

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