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Jamestown Fiasco
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Jamestown was considered by many scholars as the first permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607 by a group of settlers led by Captain Christopher Newport, who was hired by the London Company. In looking at the first fifty years of the colony's existence, ....
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....lemen" which make up an incredible number of the population proportionally compare to England. Out of 105 settlers when the colony started, 28 were "gentlemen," and in later settlements 56 out of 190 were "gentlemen." These numbers gave Virginia's population about six times as large a proportion of "gentlemen" as England had. Gentlemen were known to be people that had no manual skill, nor were expected to do manually labor. They were there to provide "the force of knowledge, the exercise of coun.... |
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