USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who emerged as Jamestown’s strict leader that forced people to work?
A
John Rolfe
B
Pocahantas
C
John Smith
D
John White
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia-the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Smith may have been the first romantic of America; he certainly became an appreciated leader. Explorer, adventurer, writer, and cartographer, Smith assumed a leadership role at the Jamestown settlement on September 10, 1608.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: After John Smith left the colony to seek medical treatment in England, he was replaced as president of the Council by George Percy who only lasted in that position for about eight months before a man named Thomas West, the Lord De La Warr was appointed governor.

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