Jamestown
Mother country
- England
Issues
- Didn't know how to hunt
- to busy digging for gold
- just all around no knowledge
Key Player
- Powhatan: Indian chief that helped Jamestown
- Opechancanough- Powhatan's brother. went on a massive raid against Jamestown in March 1622 killing over 300 people
- John Smith- first leader of Jamestown
Successes
- not successful at first
- by 1620 they exporting more than 30,000 lbs of tobacco
Contact with the natives
- people of Jamestown became dependent on the Indians
- made the Indians mad because they weren't getting anything in return
Ag
- more interested in growing crops for trade and export rather than crops for themselves
- farm hand would make only 30 dollars a year
End of Jamestown
- ended in 1622
- many people getting sick
- the massacre happened around this time
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