Starving Times Flashcards
TIME
DECEMBER 1606 - 1607
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ON THE VOYAGE TO VIRGINA
144 PEOPLE
HOW MANY SURVIVED AND MADE IT TO CHESAPEAK?
104
HOW LONG WERE THE SETTLERS IN JAMESTOWN
18 YEARS
HOW DID JOHN SMITH HELP THEM SURVIVE FOR 2 YEARS?
HE MADE THEM CARE FOR THE SICK AND FED THE SICK AND THEMSELVES. IT HELPED THEM GAIN SPIRIT.
WHAT DID THE SETTLERS RELY ON?
CORN AND IT LED THEM TO PELLOGRA
WHOS DOES KUPPERMAN COMPARE THEM TO?
THE AMERICAN PRISONERS OF THE JAPANESE IN WW2
WHAT DID SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE HAPPENED?
THAT THEY ATE EACH OTHER
According to Karen Kupperman’s interpretation, what caused the extremely high death rate in the early Jamestown colony?
The cause of the extremely high death rate was malnutrition and the psychological effects isolation had on the colony.