SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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The Friendly Time
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The Time of Great Feasting
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The Good Time
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The Starving Time
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Detailed explanation-1: -The winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown is referred to as the “starving time.” Disease, violence, drought, a meager harvest followed by a harsh winter, and poor drinking water left the majority of colonists dead that winter.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Starving Time refers to the winter of 1609–1610 when about three-quarters of the English colonists in Virginia died of starvation or starvation-related diseases.
Detailed explanation-3: -There, another supply convoy with new supplies, headed by newly appointed governor Francis West, intercepted them on the lower James River and returned them to Jamestown. Within a few years, the commercialization of tobacco by John Rolfe secured the settlement’s long-term economic prosperity.