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    and Indians. 8. House of Burgesses: 9. Pocahontas (63): Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. She saved John Smith when he trespassed. Powhatan let Smith go in exchange for weapons‚ beads and trinkets. She was captured in 1614 by Jamestown to try and blackmail Powhatan. She ended up converting to Christianity‚ changed her named to Rebecca‚ and married‚ had a kid and moved to London with John Rolfe. She was a reason Indians and colonists relations improved. 10. Sir William Berkeley

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    who could be saved.| ||likelihood of settling religious dissenters and criminals in the New World.| ||possibilities of jointly exploiting the New World with Spain.| 1 points Question 6 1. A serious problem in the early years of Jamestown was the Answer ||lack of pioneering skills among the settlers. | ||religious strife

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    He theorized that when White left to collect more supplies for the colonists‚ many of them decided to explore North Carolina and leave Roanoke Island. It is said that their destination was originally the Chesapeake which was later established as Jamestown. One of the most accepted theories was said by historian David Beers Quinn over three decades ago. He believes that majority of the colonists moved to the Chesapeake Bay while some stayed behind waiting for White’s return. After becoming impatient

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    To the Student: John Smith is a character of some legend in American history. He is a controversial early leader of the near failed settlement at Jamestown‚ Virginia. There are a lot of theories and arguments about Smith’s credibility as an author. Considering the early failure of Jamestown and the Virginia Company’s desire to cover up the disaster‚ Smith was first hailed as a hero by the Company only later to be used as their scapegoat. Wikipedia has an excellent short explanation on the doubtful

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    into the wilderness of Virginia in 1607. John Smith went into Virginia to explore and find new land. William Bradford also brought 100 men aboard the Mayflower to go and explore the Plymouth. To Begin with‚ John Smith was the president of Jamestown. When traveling in the wilderness of Virginia he wanted to find new property to tell the colonist that this new territory was better than England. When arriving at Virginia he was captured by the tribe of the Powhatan and beaten. He also had much

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    About 10 million slaves were brought to America from the time slavery started to the time it ended. Americans were bringing slaves to their country from Africa since Jamestown‚ and they were bringing in slaves from Africa for about 245 years total. Slavery is something that will always bring back terrible memories into people’s minds because of how horrible of a time it was. First‚ there were many different things Americans forced slaves to do. They used slaves to pick cotton and tobacco for them

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    Sam Nass Chapter 1 A) In chapter 1‚ Howard Zinn’s main point is that history is not formed by the names of famous people and places‚ but by the interactions between different people or groups. In chapter 1‚ he uses the interactions between Christopher Columbus and the Arawaks. When people think of Columbus‚ they think of the hero who discovered America‚ but he was not the first one there‚ and was very dismissive of the natives once he landed in America. B) The main characters or groups that

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    in 1550 and 4 million in 1600. * When economic depression hit the woolen trade in the late 1500‚ thousands of farmers took to the roads. * Peace with chastened Spain provided the opportunity for English colonization. ENGLAND PLANTS THE JAMESTOWN SEEDLING * A join-stock

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