SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN COLONY
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Question
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The settlers started getting sick. What caused the sickness?
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Brackish water
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bug bites
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diseases
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all of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Along with measles, influenza, chickenpox, bubonic plague, typhus, scarlet fever, pneumonia and malaria, smallpox spelled disaster for Native Americans, who lacked immunity to such diseases.
Detailed explanation-2: -Smallpox began to shape Canada’s political history in 1616 when the disease struck the Indigenous population living near Tadoussac, France’s first North American fur-trading post.
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