SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NORTH AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS
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104
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Detailed explanation-1: -24 May 1607, the ships reached the James River and settled Jamestown with 105 settlers. All colonists were men.
Detailed explanation-2: -Of 104 men who disembarked at Jamestown May 14, 1607, only 38 were still alive by year’s end. “They knew a little bit about the conditions that they might encounter, ” says Jim Horn, author of a Jamestown history titled “A Land as God Made It."
Detailed explanation-3: -Only 60 of 500 colonists survived the period, now known as “the starving time.” Historians have never determined exactly why so many perished, although disease, famine (spurred by the worst drought in 800 years, as climate records indicate), and Indian attacks took their toll.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the attack 350-400 of the 1, 200 settlers were killed.