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is the name of a Virginia Indian[1] tribe. It is also the name of a powerful group of tribes which they dominated. It is estimated that there were about 14‚000-21‚000 of these native Powhatan people in eastern Virginia when the English settled Jamestown in 1607.[2] They were also known as Virginia Algonquians‚ as they spoke an eastern-Algonquian language known as Powhatan. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries‚ a mamanatowick (paramount chief)[3] named Wahunsunacawh created a powerful organization
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King James a charter to found a colony in N/A. About 4 months later‚ 1607‚ the reached the coast of Virginia. ( The named the settlement Jamestown in honor of the king The settlement at Jamestown The colony’s start was disastrous. Te settlers were more interested in finding gold than in planting crops. 7 out of ppl die because of hunger‚ disease‚ battles Jamestown became
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Bibliography: After the Mayflower: We Shall RemainAmerica Through Native Eyes . PBS‚ 2009. How The Pilgrims Lived 1621 . N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2015. Settlement Comments . N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2015. . N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2015. < Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall‚ 2008. Print. Western Great Lakes . Amherst: U of Massachusetts‚ 2001. Print. This Is Native Land . N.p.‚ n.d. Web
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Chesapeakes society. 2.Of the estimated 11 million slaves carried to America the great majority were sent were?. 3.The English rehearsal for settlelement in the New world by colonizing were?. 4. To resolve the problem of the vast expenses New World settlement required‚ English merchant-capitalists introduced the. 5.Indentured Services: 6. Puritan dissenter Roger Williams established the colony of 28) ______ A) Connecticut. B) Rhode Island. C) Maryland. D) New York. E) New Jersey.
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John Smith was born on January 9‚ 1580 in Willoughby‚ England. He was an English adventurer and soldier‚ and one of the founders of Jamestown‚ Virginia and was the author of the first book written in America in English. At the age of sixteen after his father passed away‚ he ran away from home to volunteer in France who were fighting the Dutch independence from Spain. Two years later he headed toward the Mediterranean Sea where he began working on a merchant ship. At the age of twenty he joined
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The colonists’ decision to grow tobacco changed Jamestown by improving the economy of the settlement. Suddenly‚ they had a way to make money and attract new settlers. Tobacco was the “cash crop” of Jamestown. 7. The Virginia Company created the House of Burgesses because settlers were complaining about how they had to take orders from London. They decided to let the settlers
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began selling these Indians into slavery. They practiced religious conversion‚ cultural assimilation‚ and forced labor to control the Indians causing the Indians and Spaniards to begin a war. The French established their first permanent settlement in 1608 known as Quebec‚ which served as a fur-trading post. New France then developed as an enterprise for acquiring furs‚ which were in great demand in Europe. Also‚ the French legal system also gave peasants rights to their lands; however‚ migrants
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English colony named Roanoke. When it was settled‚ Jamestown sent out about 100 English settlers to build the colony. The settlers were upset about the natives and killed the chiefs son! The native Americans retaliated and vanquished all of Roanoke’s settlers. Jamestown got word that Roanoke was taken over but instead of choosing to leave the colony there and never settle near it‚ Jamestown sent back 117 settlers! John White the leader of the settlement choose to bring his wife‚ and daughter (who was
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in common? 6. If you wanted to go to a bustling plantation‚ which colony would you visit? 7. Why were the thirteen colonies established on the east coast? 8. What is the significance of the Jamestown settlement? 9. Place the following events in sequence: 1) The Plymouth colony is founded; 2) The Jamestown colony is founded; 3) The French-Indian War. 10. What was the major issue that sparked a revolution in the colonies? 11. Who founded the colony of Connecticut on May 1636? 12. Anne Hutchinson
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