COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Captain John Smith was elected president and made people work together.
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Baron De La Warr ordered that people could not move onto Powhatan land.
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John Rolfe married Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas.
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Chief Powhatan signed a treaty, giving the settlers more land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soon after, there was conflict. JAMESTOWN, Va.-The powerful American Indian chief, known as Powhatan, had refused the English settlers’ demands to return stolen guns and swords at Jamestown, Va., so the English retaliated. They killed 15 of the Indian men, burned their houses and stole their corn.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the colonists grew stronger they began to put pressure on the Powhatan’s for more land. This was one reason why warfare erupted between the two cultures in two major conflicts in 1622 and 1644.
Detailed explanation-3: -Often called the Powhatan Indians, after their paramount chief, Powhatan, they had been at peace with the English since 1614, when the marriage of Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe had put an end to the First Anglo-Powhatan War.
Detailed explanation-4: -While Native Americans and English settlers in the New England territories first attempted a mutual relationship based on trade and a shared dedication to spirituality, soon disease and other conflicts led to a deteriorated relationship and, eventually, the First Indian War.