An interactive colonial America simulation

Every choice at Jamestown costs something.

Students navigate the river, manage supplies, negotiate trade, and work a farm. They use historical sources to explain their decisions and what those choices cost.

APUSH / U.S. HistoryGrades 9–12Digital simulation

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Jamestown 1607: The Price of Survival — an interactive APUSH simulation. Cover art showing a boat approaching the James River fort, with period evidence cards.

Inside the simulation

Five games. Fifty scenes.

Real screens — not mockups. Swipe or use the arrows.

The Landfall Lab: a painted Chesapeake survey map with shoreline landing points, a skiff, daylight and tool counters, and field instruments for depth, salinity and soil. — **Landfall Lab** Survey the river before choosing a site

The Tobacco Chain: a pixel-art Virginia farmstead where the student walks a steward between plots, a storehouse and a dock, choosing food, tobacco or cover crops. — **The Tobacco Chain** Work the field, then defend the cost

The Winter Ledger: a fort map with six weekly cycles, colonists assigned to the well, storehouse, palisade, sick quarters, cookfire and record desk. — **Winter Ledger** Six weeks, finite labor, real consequences

Charter of Contradictions: an evidence desk where documents are pinned under authority, representation, land and labor, then linked with ribbons. — **Charter of Contradictions** Build the argument from documents

A decision scene rendered as a period document, with a primary source, a written evidence claim and the available council decisions. — **Every decision is sealed** With a source, to the record

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Read the landscape

Work from period evidence and the conditions of a river settlement.

Make the call

Balance survival, relationships, labor, and what London expects.

Defend the outcome