John Rolfe and  Pocahontas

Q#2 Describe Jamestown disastrous beginning to their prosperity?
Two years after the peace treaty with Spain, England was out at sea searching for Jamestown, Virginia.In the year 1606 King James I granted the expedition of Jamestown, gold being the prime motivator. Once they landed in the Chesapeake region, the men where attacked by Indians and pushed into the James river.The area was easy to defend but was mosquito infested and and increasingly unhealthy, which proved a challenge to the so called "gentlemen". The men in this colonist expedition where described as "gentlemen" by John Smith a man who would later be enlisted to their aid. Partly because they where all from England and high class these men did not know how to fend for themselves, they became so hungry for a non- existent gold that they never bothered to search for actual useful resources in order to survive. Various men died from diseases and to make things worse the Powhatan people in the area began a war with the English men. Ultimately the war ended with the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, daughter of the Powhatan chief. John Rolfe would eventually be the one to bring some prosperity and stability to the unstable Jamestown. John began a tobacco plantation after he discovered a way to get rid of the bitter tang. With this knew flavor, tobacco became a highly requested import and soon Jamestown was being lifted into a stable economy.