SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN COLONY
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If you do not work, you do If you don’t catch it, you don’t eat.
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Treat others as you want to be treated.
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If you find gold, you get to keep it.
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If you don’t work, you won’t eat.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He instilled greater discipline among the settlers, enforcing the rule “He who will not work shall not eat.” Under Smith’s guiding hand, the colony made progress: The settlers dug the first well, planted crops and began repairing the fort that had burned down the previous winter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jamestown was established on May 14, 1607. Smith trained the first settlers to work at farming and fishing, thus saving the colony from early devastation.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Smith, (baptized January 6, 1580, Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England-died June 21, 1631, London), English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Detailed explanation-4: -For every six colonists who ventured across the Atlantic, only one survived. John Smith may have saved the settlers of Jamestown from starving to death, but he wasn’t exactly everyone’s favorite person.
Detailed explanation-5: -By 1608, only 38 colonists survived due to the leadership of John Smith who arrived at the colony and created a “No work, No eat” policy.