SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN COLONY
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The settlers had to clear more land which belonged to the Powhatan Indians.
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The Indians attacked and killed 1/3 of the colonists.
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The Virginia colonists fought back and defeated the Powhatan Indians.
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Nothing happened.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They burned villages and corn crops (ironic, in that the English were often starving). Both sides committed atrocities against the other. Powhatan was finally forced into a truce of sorts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Powhatan War, (1622–44), relentless struggle between the Powhatan Indian confederacy and early English settlers in the tidewater section of Virginia and southern Maryland. The conflict resulted in the destruction of the Indian power.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Jamestown colonists found a new way to make money for The Virginia Company: tobacco. The demand for tobacco eventually became so great, that the colonists turned to enslaved Africans as a cheap source of labor for their plantations.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Powhatan lost their political independence after being defeated by the English in the 1644-46 Anglo-Powhatan War. Powhatan continued to live in the Virginia coastal plain as they had done for centuries, but after the war, their chiefs ruled under the authority of the English royal governor.