The English settlement of Jamestown was important for the future of European colonization in North America. The colonists suffered many challenges, particularly in their early years, and many ...

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It also was the perfect name. The noun “colony” implies a like purpose for the constituents. For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was ...