Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tension between the Settlers and the Powhatans
Why all the tension between the English settlers and the Powhatan tribes? Of course, the English are invading the Powhatan lands, but the Powhatan seem to open to English trade and offer food and assistance to the English. Yet the two sides are continually fighting despite their overtures to friendship. Why? What seems to be getting in the way of a lasting peace? What could they both be learning from each other?
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I want to know more about this Blood on the River book.All the questions I ask there's no answer to it,it's just We're sorry,we can't find your stupid question!I think me and my friends,Julia and Lili are onto something now about the missing stamp box in the empty lochs!So could you please put more answers on this website so me and my friends can find out what the heck is going on!?
i liked this book i had to read it for skool
The tension is increased due to the Virginia Companies offerings to indentured servants, which is land. If they agree to go to Virginia and work for 4-7 years as an indentured servant (that means for no money), then after those years are served they will get a piece of land, tools, and livestock to start their new life. Also for current landowners, for every indentured servant they take in, they are able to acquire another 50 acres. The Powhantans realize the colonists will never stop coming and that they will continue to take the lands. This makes them very upset and they begin to fight back. It wasn't until many of the Powhantans began dieing from English diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and measles that their numbers began to decrease and they had to abandon the fight. During this time, King James I declares Jamestown a royal colony (which means he is claiming ownership of the land) and he probably did so seeing how the Virginia Company was making huge profits from their cash crop of Tobacco that is being sold in England.
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