Can some one proof read my paper?

[rickie]

The Jamestown Fiasco

The Settler’s problems started way before they even reached their new world. They weren’t prepared mentally or physically. Their government was shameful and they brought an excess of people who had no real meaning for coming on this journey, men who wouldn’t work to save their lives. They set their self’s up for failer and succeed at that.
The governing board above smith made it really impossible for smith or anyone else with organizational skills to lead the settlers in panting and gathering food. Even after one year of starvation, the settlers still did not want to become self supportive. Smith changed that on 1608 for only one year but with many complaining, smith was replaced by military control. The laws were very strict. In 1609 under Sir Thomas Gates, Indian children were kidnapped to bring them up in the English manner.
In 1608 John Smith was made solely in charge of work duty. If any able body settler did not work he would not eat and be banished from the settlement. Work or you starve was so successful only 7 or 8 men died in that year that followed. However by the winter of 1608, Smith was out. He continued to have business relationships with the neighboring tribes. Never were they killed or their villages and crops burned. Smith believed the Indians could be easily conquered but thought it was more civil to work with them in trade and sharing of the new land.
Settler’s problems multiplied when the military took over there wasn’t any peaceful trading with the. At anytime an Indian would come into Jamestown with much needed food for the settlers, they would seize and kill the Indian. All the settlers harvest was inventoried by the military control and divided with only meager amounts returned to the settler. His Incentive to work hard was also stiffed by the lazy work man receiving the same portion of payment as the hard working man. It is very disturbing to know the settlers who did earn any amount of extra money had to till the command soil for seven years until a small plot of land could be purchased the farmers proved supporting themselves was very difficult but possible.
The nobility and gentry of England were enticed to live in the new world, not farmers, blacksmiths, builders and shopkeepers. 33% of the first were classified as gentlemen that are men who did not know any manual skills. The second third wave of immigrants brought even more upper class, opinionated, unwilling to labor in the fields Englishmen. The distortion was sixteen times greater than towns and cities in England. There were too many wanting to counsel and too few to doing manual skills. The personal attendants to the gentlemen did nothing to help the labor pool either. Therefore, the skilled artisan who could not perform his craft, his choice was often to sit with the gentlemen and let others till the soil. The selection of Englishmen was not determined by those individuals who were qualified to keep themselves alive in a new land. England never considered staying alive in Virginia to be a serious problem. They were repeatedly wrong.
England had envisioned the settlers in the new world to live much like England’s woodland and pasture people , it wanted the settlers to set up big business in iron mining, smelting, salt making, and glass making but these riches were not found. Nor was gold or silver found. England’s expectation of profit from the new world was unrealistic. Compared to today’s USA work ethic, the people of the new world didn’t work enough. According to a tract issued in 1610 six am to ten am and two pm to four pm were the hours of one documented business. In a chronically, starving community one would conclude in today’s time, working many more hours to each day would yield a bigger harvest.
The English had arrogance about them in that they expected and demanded Indians to supply them with food. Their image of themselves was superior over people and their land in the new world. The settlers ruled by intimidation rather than collaboration. It wasn’t until 1617 when the settlers grew a low grade tobacco that a profit was made and recognition brought to a potential industry of the new world.

[arne33]

Check your spelling. There are a lot of errors. Also, check your capitalizations on proper names such as Smith.

[teyo]

They set themselves up for and succeeded at failure. Capitalize smith. Planting, not panting. Just a start.