Algonquians and the English (Chapter 6)
The Native cultural group living along much of the Atlantic coast.
Who are the Algonquians?
The difficult winter when many Jamestown colonists died.
What is the Starving Time?
This crop would soon make Virginia wealthy.
What is tobacco?
Colonists were encouraged to come to Virginia because they could own this.
What is land?
This crop finally made Jamestown profitable.
What is tobacco?
The English and Algonquians often traded these animal skins.
What are furs?
One major reason settlers suffered during the Starving Time.
What is lack of food/supplies?
The powerful storm discussed in the chapter.
What is a hurricane?
This system awarded land to settlers who paid for passage.
What is the headright system?
The Englishman who developed a marketable variety of tobacco.
Who is John Rolfe?
A major difference between the groups involved ownership of this.
What is land?
This Native group sometimes traded food with the colonists.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
This Powhatan woman married an English settler.
Who is Pocahontas?
Owning land gave colonists a larger share in this.
What is America/the colony?
Tobacco was sold mainly to this country.
What is England?
These often resulted from cultural misunderstandings.
What are conflicts or wars?
Colonists searched desperately for this basic necessity.
WWhat is food?
Her marriage helped create a period of peace between natives and colonists.
What is Pocahontas?
Many poor English people came to Virginia hoping for this.
What is opportunity?
Growing tobacco created a need for more of this.
What is labor/workers?
Colonization permanently changed this aspect of Algonquian life.
What is their way of life/culture?
The Starving Time taught future colonies this important lesson.
What is planning and preparation?
The Englishman Pocahontas married.
Who is John Rolfe?
This idea helped colonies attract more settlers.
What is private land ownership?
Jamestown became England's first successful permanent settlement in this region/state?
What is Virginia?