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Jamestown
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pocahontas | Smith’s daughter, saved him from execution, but Pocahontas reappears in the colonial records in 1613, when she was lured aboard an english ship and held captive, then she married John Rolfe, |
| Tobacco | cash crop |
| 1607 | The first successful colony was in Jamestown, Virginia 1607 where you had a 50% chance to survive the first five years. |
| John Smith | president of Jamestown required all the colonists to work and had friendly trading relations with the Algonquins |
| John Ralfe | introduced first cash crop of tobbaco |
| Starving time | Colonists trapped in James Fort due to bad relations with Algonquian -Low food supply -Disease rate is high -cold winter -resort to cannibalism |
| John Smith | well versed in outdoor living and farming his downfall was a gunpowder accident |
| James fort | Problem: did not go far enough upstream to get away from the salt water, they were in a marsh |