why did the first james town fail?
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Although Jamestown was an important centre of government and commerce in the 17th century, the location was plagued by mosquitoes, brackish tidal river water which was unsuitable for drinking, and offered limited space for major expansion. Several times during contingencies, such as fires and Bacon's Rebellion, the seat of government for the colony was shifted temporarily to nearby Middle Plantation, which was a fortified location on the high ridge approximately equidistant from the James and York Rivers on the Virginia Peninsula. When the Colony was finally granted a long-desired charter for a college in 1693, Middle Plantation was chosen as the site of the new College of William and Mary, named for the British king and queen who granted the royal charter. After another accidental state house fire at Jamestown in 1698, the capital of the Colony was permanently relocated to Middle Plantation in 1699. The new capital town was soon renamed Williamsburg, in honor of the current British king, William III.\n\nJamestown began a gradual loss of prominence after the capital was relocated, and eventually reverted to a few large farms. It became a significant point for control of the James River during the American Civil War (1860-1865), and then slid back into seeming oblivion until the early 20th century.
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because it was not valid
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either somebody mis-counted or they invited their neighbor towns to march along with them
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:} \nFirst Baptist Church was the first established in that city , 2nd the 3nd there are 3rd also
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One man out of thirteen survived this tragedy.  I call this a tragedy because the officials could have acted an awful lot faster than what they did in getting the others out.  In fact, it was in the newspaper today about how one of the miners that died kept a running diary while trapped for over twelve hours until he finally died.  Granted, they were of varying ages, but that should not have made any difference.  They should have ALL been out in a matter of a few hours, not a few days.  I blame the mining company in part because of the inaccessibility to the mine shaft and the mine itself.  One way out of this thing?  PLEASE!  If the mine was built in recent years, I would think that a second exit would have been put in.  The mining company did not see to this, and so I blame them.  ALSO...the town should NOT  be paying for their funerals, the mining company should be footing the ENTIRE BILL!!!  As for the mayor...who knows?  Not me.
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Gee, where do I start.  Let's see, corrupt government. Incompetent officials.  Brutal police force and military.  Deep religious divide.  Lack of accountability (I guess that goes with the corrupt government).  I would be surprised if it's NOT falling apart.  It has been failing apart for a good part of the past few centuries.
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They had to move around a couple of times, to protect their son.  They probably sold those things, and used the money to set Joseph up in business in the new towns.
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Im pretty sure that Jamestown was founded to start the beginning of the new colonies that England planned to establish in America.  The men were sent over to set up the colony as it was only forest when they landed so that it would be suitable for women and children to come over later after they had made sure the area was safe and that there was proper shelter for them.
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it failed, no new tax
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If your government did not want to react to this with violence, I'm sure they had a good reason.  Or maybe they are just not ready to react.  Have you asked the head of your village or town?
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In Maryland:\n\nFounding of the town of Springfield\n    [5F02] As early as 1649, the Maryland town of Sprynge-Fielde was inhabited by obvious ancestors of the people of Springfield, the Flanders and the Simpsons.\n\n    [3F13] In 1796, a fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the bible. Their destination, New Sodom. [4F03] Marge says these pioneers were circus freaks.\n\n        * Jebediah: "People, our search is over. On this site we shall build a new town, where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "yes, and marry our cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "What are you talking about Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?"\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "Cause they're so attractive. I thought that was the whole point of this journey."\n        * Jebediah: "Absolutely not."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "I tell you I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "Well then, we'll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm?" \n\n    [2F22] The town of Springfield was born on that day. And to mark that sweet moment, our people planted this lemon tree. Lemons being the sweetest fruit available at the time. [4F15] In 1797, the town charter was created;\n\n        * [9F10] "...as chief constable, ye shall receive one pig every month and two comely lasses of virtue true."
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A failure? I would call it a horrific farce. I mean bad enough it was celebreties going down there to get people out of New Orleans instead of the government(Thank the Godess for people like Sean Penn) but the fact that there was NO follow up...I mean COME ON!!! How many were turned out of their hotel rooms and shelters with NO place to go? It makes me sick to my stomach. Where is the humanity???
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Well, it definately didnt work...if it did, we wouldnt have had a Civil War in 1861.  It attempted to keep Slavery restricted to the South(32 30 lat., Now the Missouri Kansas border) Anything Kansas and above were free states and everythign below were slave states.It ultimately failed because of the Dred Scott decision which said that slaves were property adn not people, so they could not be freed(case originated in Indiana) and declaring the Compromise of 1820 unconstituional. The South also wanted to expand, due to the new territory gained from the Mexican war in 1848.  With the new territories in, once granted statehood would jeopardize the South's representation in the government adn started to complain again. This lead to another compromise in 1850 which also failed because of an abused concept of Popular Sovereignty.\n\nPopular Sovereignty was the idea that the state would choose wheether it would allow Slavery or not.  The states in question at the time were Kansas and Nebraska. Nebraska was mainly populated by Northerners and less Southerners since the climate waspoor for farming their stales.  But Kansas presented a problem.  Citizens in Neighboring Missouri fled to Kansas and claimed to be citizens in that State so that they could vote in Slavery.  THis also caused violence known as Bleeding Kansas.  Although the majority of the population in Kansas were Northern anti slvery people, because of all the illegal voting from people from Missouri allowed an illeagl constitution and the sitting President, James BUchanan failed to act.  By 1860, tensions were high, a person who threattened the Southern way of life was elected into office adn S. Carolina Seceeded...and the forst shotw were fired the following April.
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Just then I was teleported to a medieval construction site.  Before I had time to exclaim, "What the...", I was ordered to get the wattle and daub from the slag heap behind the lean-to, before it hardened.\n\nSeemed I was stuck there, as I knew castles to take generations to build.  Damn my luck.
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Israel, but it was considered a military and diplomatic failure.
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Wow, The wikipedia is wrong?  Jamacia was settled by freed slaves, the Turks were the first people to use smoke as a means of altering reality. Perhaps we should re-examine why paper was first made?
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failure of meeting the policy objectives