Why Was the Death Rate in Early Jamestown So High

question 70

Multiple Choice

Why was the death rate in early Jamestown so high?

• A) It lay beside a malarial swamp.
• B) The ample food was full of botulism.
• C) It was not high; most of the colonists survived.
• D) Constant Native American attacks decimated the population.
• E) Many of the colonists committed suicide.

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