Jamestown

Jamestown is the first permanent English settlement in America. It was discovered by the Virginia Company of London and named after King James I.
They came there to prospect for gold and to seek a water route to the Orient. In 1607 about 100 settlers landed and founded Jamestown.

Their main problems:

- The weather conditions were rough and they did not have any freshwater sources. That`s why only 60 of the 500 colonists survived.

- The Algonquian Indians constantly attacked them. Peace came only when their chief`s daughter married a tobacco farmer in Jamestown.

Tobacco helped the colony grow and develop because of the profits that it collected from this kind of crop.

Jamestown