From your vantage point in time, how would u plan the Jamestown colony to insure a good and prosperous start?
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What ultimately made life possible for the 'pilgrims' was something akin to capitalism. They started out in more of a commune system, which about killed them off, b/c there's no incentive to work (produce).\n\nYou need people that are focused on getting ahead, aggressively.
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Speaking English would be a great start.
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you must have the perfect idea first...
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The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony.
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Date Founded: April 26, 1607 at 4:00 am \nWho founded the colony and why? The Virginia Company  of London founded the colony to get gold and silver, to trade, to claim land and to christianize. \nWho came to the colony and why?  One hundred English men came to America to look for gold. \nWhich tribes of Native Americans lived there? The Powhatan, the Susquehannah, the Momacan, the Manahoac, the Cherokee and the Bowhatan tribes. \nHow were the people governed? The colonists were a big part of the government. They almost governed themselves. For a long time, the colony was strictly christian.  Then, when more people came to the colony, different cultures and religions came with them. \nWhen was it established as a state? June 25, 1788 as the10th state.
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Start with the past, move to the present, then talk about your plans for the future.\n\nTry to start with something intriguing like,\n\nWhen I tell people I was born in Laos, most people say, "Where?"\n\nor\n\nMy parents will remember November 9, 1989 for two reasons: it was the day the Berlin Wall fell and also the day I was born.
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I would love to go back to the start of the last century. Everything we take for granted today was just at the beginning and very exciting, i.e. cars, planes, electricity, machines.
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Hi Lana, there should be something on the subject within these links.\n\nSocial Studies\n\nAmerica began as colonies of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The story of America as a nation must begin with the colonization of the East Coast.\n\nhttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm\n\nJamestown and how America started.\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/jt/jt.htm\n\nhttp://cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/journey/___thebeginning.html\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/ca_intro.htm\n\nhttp://www.apva.org/history/\n\nhttp://www.academicinfo.net/usearlycolonial.html\n\n Although there were other Europeans who had visited and even tried to establish colonies on the eastern coast of the New World, the British were the first to establish a permanent colony. They named their fort Jamestown.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/kirk/jamestown.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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You could start here...
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Just type     English Enlightenment in thee 18th century  in your\nweb address line.....i jut did it.....You will get all the information you want, along with the three paragraph ideas, with 3 supporting details for each.\n\nYou will get A+    anytime you ever have a question, just type it like I just mentioned...it really works...\nWish we had a computer when I was young  Lol\nIt is so much faster!\nHope you have a wonderful Holiday coming up, and your loved ones.
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i would like to be around in colonial times and see how the country came about, or in egypt with cleopatra, there are lots of great times i would love to visit
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This might work as a start:
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You've already got some good answers below.  Now, read a fresh perspective on the BENEFICIAL side of colonialism, written by Dinesh D'Sousa.\n\nIf you read this article, you will know more than anyone else in your class.\n\nhttp://chronicle.com/free/v48/i35/35b00701.htm
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First black man to do what white men have been doing for century's,whats the big deal,Grow Up!!! What I would like to see Is the first economically successful BLACK country!
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Fishing. The Grand Banks were the richest fishing grounds in the world at that time.\n\nThe settlers wiped out the Beothucks, which sort of wrecked their economy. Not that they really had one -- they were hunter/gatherers.
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“Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together…”  William Bradford (The Mayflower Compact)\n\nWe, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God…\nInstructions for the Virginia Colony (1606) \nLastly and chiefly the way to prosper and achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God the Giver of all Goodness, for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.  (the First Charter of Virginia)\n\nWe Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775] -- John Adams and John Hancock\n\n“ Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity… and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.” [October 4, 1790] - Samuel Adams\n\n• “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?\n--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts. - John Quincy Adams\n\n" Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." [Source: To James McHenry on November 4, 1800.] -- Charles Carroll\n\nIn Benjamin Franklin's 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach "the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern." \n\nIn 1787 when Franklin helped found Benjamin Franklin University, it was dedicated as "a nursery of religion and learning, built on Christ, the Cornerstone." \n\n\nOn July 12, 1804 at his death, Hamilton said, “I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.” -- Alexander Hamilton
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The below website should give you a good start!