Answer:
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Explanation:
In 1606, the Virginia Company of London sent ships across the sea in search of gold. The English settlers did not find gold in their settlement of Jamestown, but instead were stricken with starvation, disease and terrible suffering. Only 38 of 144 colonists managed to survive the first year in Jamestown. Pilgrims and Puritans came in the years that followed, and they, too, faced many hardships.