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August 30th, 2009 In the sixteenth and seventeenth century England slowly made its way into the New World. The settlers in Jamestwon dealt with the extreme hardships they faced in Jamestown because of social and economic issues. In England there was a severe depression in wool trade and the enclosure movement. There was less money going around England and the probelms in the wool trade caused many people in the lower class to lose their jobs causing them to wonder the country looking for work. In England there was also an overpopulation in prisons and citites, that cause criminals to be killed intead of being put into jail and for homeless to only wonder. seein gthe success that Spain had in the New World and the gold and richess they were achieving cause some of the rich gentlemen to want to have a part in it. They wanted the fame of being the first to colonlize in their country first and they wanted to richess. that lead to the rich gentlemen creating the Virginia Company. once the gemtlemen got to the New World they were consumed with the urge to find gold and that was all that they thought about not even worrying over food, which they did not have and eventually they started to starve. they began to eat anything they could including their wives, horse skin, and dead Native Americans they killed, in the end only 38 out of the origonal 104 settlers survived. The New World they lived in was infested with misquitoes wth malaria, which was something they were not used to causin them to die off from that to. the gemtlemen simply could not pull out because they had invested too much, they wanted gold and fame, and from the simple aspects of liberty and freedom. the Virginia Company's charter promised the the settlers would have the same rights as englishmen back in England and they would have 100 acres of land. The thoughts of having freedom and land and gold caused them to endure the hardships that they faced.