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Colonising The Pocahontas Summary

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IX. COLONIZING THE CAROLINAS
A. 1640s: Civil war in England
B. 1629: King Charles 1 got rid of Parliament
1. Recalled mutinous members and Oliver Cromwell became champion
C. 1649: Beheaded King Charles 1 – Cromwell ruled England
D. 1660: Charles 2 gained the throne
E. Colonization had been interrupted by unrest; restoration period led to intense building
F. 1670: Carolina (named for Charles 2) created
G. Carolina and West Indies relied on each other
H. Got help from costal Savannah Indians to enslave Indians to export
I. Savannahs ended alliance with Carolina
1. Migration to William Penn Quaker colony
a) Better relations between Indians and whites
J. 1710: Whites thinned savannahs with bloody raids – all but gone
K. Rice became …show more content…

and Dorothea Mason. He travelled to the New World and settled in Jamestown in 1610 as part of a charter from the Virginia Company. He helped the colony survive by growing the first profitable tobacco crops, which became the main crop of Jamestown quickly. Four years later he married Pocahontas (right), the daughter of the Indian chieftain Powhatan, and they had a son before sailing to England. Pocahontas died in 1616 and Rolfe remarried before dying in 1622.
The Iroquois Confederacy (map at right), also known as the Iroquois League, Five Nations, or Six Nations (after the Tuscarora joined in 1722), was located in what is now New York. Between 1570 and 1600, Denanawidah, who was a Huron, convinced the Onondaga Hiawatha to create a confederation. This confederation joined tribes together to fight invasions and was different from other Native American confederacies in that the Iroquois were more organized and more effective.
Since Jamestown was established for the Virginia Company, the settlers knew that they needed to make money in order to continue to receive supplies and support. The labor-intensive cash crop became the only thing that the citizens cared about, and they did not care if they had to use Indian or African slaves to do

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