Topic – Claim – Reasons Each reason (or argument) will be a paragraph. You will create an outline of how you would write those paragraphs. “Reasoning” is different than the “reasons” – it is the logic that you use to make sense of the evidence. Evidence means little without the reasoning behind your conclusions. Argument – Evidence – Reasoning For instance: I. Claim Statement: Most of the colonists died from sickness, disease, starvation, and native attacks. II. Argument #1 A) (Evidence) Source G 1) (Evidence) The quote says this “Summer sickness kills half the colonist Capt… Disease returns, 100 at Jamestown ‘sickened and half the number died’. (The starving time) kills some 110 colonists from famine and disease.” 2) (Reasoning) This supports the …show more content…
argument because it shows how many colonists died from sickness and disease. B) (Evidence) Source B 1) (Evidence) This shows this information that the brackish water was a huge deal in this, without fresh water all the time colonists got sick from the unhealthy water. 2) (Reasoning) This information means many colonists died because they had no source of fresh water. 3) (Reasoning) This corroborates the story told by Source G because Source G states that many died from sickness and famine which would of be caused by the unhealthy water.
III. Argument #2 (Evidence) Source G 1) (Evidence) The quote says this “(The starving time) kills some 110 colonists from famine and disease.” 2) (reasoning) this supports the argument because during the “Starving time” there was famine which means there was a shortage of food. B) (Evidence) Source B 2) (reasoning) In Source B it talks about brackish water, water that has salt but is still drinkable and usable for growing crops, but it's not the best for it. 3) (reasoning) So some of the crops must of died from the brackish water, and some colonists must of gotten sick from it as well. IV. Argument #3 (Evidence) Source C 1) (Evidence) The quote says this “I, therefore, exhort you to peaceable councils, and above all I insist that guns and swords, the cause of all our jealousy and uneasiness, be removed and be sent
away.” 2) (reasoning) this supports the argument because this is more evidence to the two fighting. B) (Evidence) Source C Chief Powhatan in his speech talks about how the two are fighting and how they would give the colonists what they want with love and they have no need to take it. 2) reasoning) Even though one side will gladly sign a peace treaty and the other side wants to kill them, they still won’t stand there and be killed, they fight back to protect themselves. 3) (reasoning) And when the Natives (the side that wanted peace) fought back the colonists were scared and fought back even harder. V. Conclusion In conclusion there were many reasons to why the colonists died, but most of it was sickness and disease, starvation and famine, and Native attacks.But most of it was heavily self-inflicted, if the befriended the Natives they wouldn’t of died from war, if they took advice and followed the way Natives lived, they would of had a better time with starvation and famine, and if they adopted the medicines of the Natives they could of survived more diseases and sicknesses. Jacob Sheridan
In her work, Apathy and Death in Early Jamestown, Karen Ordahl Kupperman argues that the “high mortality rate” of Jamestown was caused by apathy, which formed from “a combination of psychological and physical factors” of disease, malnutrition, and despair. She supports her argument by making parallel connections between the source of death of those at Jamestown to the deaths of American prisoners of war in World War II and the Korean War. Although her claims are interesting to read due to the engaging comparisons she makes to the death rates in Jamestown, her analogy between prisoners of war and colonists is weak due to the two vastly different situation that the people of both times went through.
For starters, there was many illnesses and diseases that went around multiple times in Jamestown’s history. In Document E, it says between August and October of 1607 “Summer sickness kills half the colonist”. This supports my claim because half of the original
Have you ever wondered why so many settlers died in the Jamestown settlement? In the Jamestown settlement they faced many problems like diseases and the Powhatans. I think most of the settlers died because of diseases, the Indians, and the people they brought to settle in Jamestown. The English settled in Jamestown in 1607. The goal when they came to Jamestown was to find riches. When the English got to America they had many troubles living there. One of the troubles was lack of water and food. Many of the settlers died from starvation and dehydration. Most of the people in the colonies died from a mysterious death. I think the main reasons why the settlers died were diseases they got, the people they brought on the ship to america and the
Everyone knows the story of how the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower and started a new life. But what about before the Pilgrims? On May 14th, 1607, 104 English settlers stepped off the crowded boat and started a colony in modern-day Virginia. These people are referred to as the “early Jamestown settlers”. Now, it’s important to know that when we say “early”, we mean the first 544. However, they didn’t actually ever have 544 people there at once. The most they ever had at one time was 381 people, and the least amount was 40. This is because a lot of them died. Why did they die? That’s a good question. Their deaths can be attributed to multiple things, including the climate, disease, and a lack of money. However, those things are mere
Another reason why so many colonists died was because of their relations with the Native Americans. If they did not cut people’s heads of (Document D) because they didn’t want to trade, maybe they could of got some food. They also went through a series of 3 wars with the Powhatan Natives. The first war lasted from 1610-1614 (4 years) which really affected the colonists during the Starving time. If they did not massacre the Natives, maybe they could've traded for
Some consequences of the exchange are the spread of disease to the Native people and settlers, the destruction of the Native population, and the disappearance of the Natives custom’s, beliefs, and way of life. Columbus’s arrival to the Americas, land that had already been established by the Natives, resulted in a spread of fatal diseases. Disagreement between the Europeans and the Natives and the enslavement of Native people helped to wipe out the population. Document 5 illustrates the fighting that occurred between the Natives and Europeans.
We have had to deal with, “poor food- hard lodging- cold weather- fatigue, “(Document B). In this diary by Dr Waldo, a doctor we have at camp, he has accurately described what life is like at camp. The factors that we undergo make us sick both physically and mentally, these factors make us lose all sense of empowerment to win this war that we once felt, these factors make us want to go home more than anything just to hear our mother’s voice just once more. The absence of encouragement from other colonists and countries, and how I have to go to bed with my stomach empty every single night pushes me over the edge to give up and just
While obtaining food seemed to be the entire purpose of life for the people imprisoned in the camps, it often killed more people than it saved. Though focusing on food seemed like a logical thing to do when you are being starved, it was not always very effective in helping people survive. There are many situations in the book illustrating how living for the sole purpose of acquiring food—under any condition—could turn out to be lethal.
With this heat and also a drought that summer, the fresh water around them became saturated by salt and it is believed they also died of salt poisoning. With all these events, deaths, and hardships the colonists were now just fighting for survival. With their store of wheat and barley thin, starvation drove them to cannibalism, eating dogs, cats and other animals. With all the deaths and less and less able bodied men, with about 60 men alive and only 6 months in, they decided to execute a man just because he was believed to be a spy. This shows how they were still weary of a Spanish attack and needed guidance.
The harsh conditions of the Chesapeake colonies indiscriminately killed anyone who lived there. According to Taylor, “Despite the importation of fifteen thousand indentured servants between 1625 and 1640, Virginias population increased by only seven thousand…the extremes of the Chesapeake environment shocked English bodies...”
Later in the essay, Hardin writes about the differences in the population growth between rich and poor nations. Poor nations multiply much more quickly than richer nations. The essay then goes on to explain what the consequences would be of setting of a national food bank. It explains that only the rich nations would be able to contribute to the food bank and the poor nations would only draw. This would only add to the problem of the poor nations as they would have no desire to save of food for themselves since they know they will be taken care of anyways. Giving poor nations food would be bad a...
Food is essential to basic life. It provides people with the energy to think, speak, walk, talk, and breathe. In preparation for the Jews deportation from the ghettos of Transylvania, “the (Jewish) women were busy cooking eggs, roasting meat, and baking cakes”(Wiesel, 13). The Jewish families realized how crucial food was to their lives even before they were faced with the daily condition of famine and death in the concentration camps. The need for food was increased dramatically with the introduction of the famine-like conditions of the camps. Wiesel admitted that, although he was incredibly hungry, he had refused to eat the plate of thick soup they served to the prisoners on the first day of camp because of his nature of being a “spoiled child”. But his attitude changed rapidly as he began to realize that his life span was going to be cut short if he continued to refuse to eat the food they served him. “By the third day, I (Elie Wiesel) was eating any kind of soup hungrily” (Wiesel, 40). His desire to live superseded his social characteristic of being “pampered”. Remarque also uses his characters to show to how a balanced diet promotes a person’s good health. Paul Bäumer uses food to encourage Franz Kemmerich, his sick friend, “eat decently and you’ll soon be well again…Eating is the main thing” (Remarque, 30). Paul Bäumer feels that good food can heal all afflictions. The bread supply of the soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front was severely threatened when the rats became more and more numerous.
The potential of this colony was significantly hindered by the shortsightedness of those who attempted to govern it. If an adequate farming system would have been put in place the colony could have managed to propel itself in other areas of logistics and industrial expansion, instead the colonists were forced to feed amongst their own deceased. "...they offer the only authentic examples of cannibalism witnessed in Virginia. One provident man chops up his wife and salts down the pieces. Others dig up graves to eat the corpses. By spring only sixty are left alive." Overlooking the potential social and economic gains that were forfeited by this colony, the gruesome truth about what many were forced to do to survive in itself is cause for me to classify the initial expansion of this colony as a
... then five more, one after another… they allowed themselves to eat those bodies… They said, ‘it was the great unbearable famine that did it.’” The struggle to find food was real. It was a heavy burden for people to bear. The need to stay a live became a daily struggle many civilian and soldiers.
Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Upon arriving, the colonizers felt threatened by being the minority in the newly found land, and viewed the Natives as an enemy as they were the current majority. The European conquerors did not intend on coexisting with the current residents, and planned to kill the tribes that they deemed the most dangerous. At the time Europeans migrated to the United States, it is estimated that there were at least 10 million Native Americans living in what is now the United States, now there are only 5 million around. By introducing new diseases, which the colonists may have not been aware about, they killed thousands of natives. In many cases tribes went extinct, due to the fact that many were incapacitated by the diseases. Although many will argue that the Europeans could not control the spreading of disease to the Natives, there is evidence showing that once they knew the Natives were not immune to the pathogens, they used them to their advantage. In a quote written by Sir Jeffrey Amherst, who was a commander in the British forces of North America, he shows how the colonists used their knowledge of the diseases to their favor,“You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method, that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.” Many consider that those who died of introduced disease were as much the victims of genocide as those who were burned, stabbed or shot, in other well recognized