War and Peace with Powhatan's People

Paragraph #7, mentions that John Smith was captured in 1607. What other significant event occurred that same year?

• The Founding of Jamestown

• The Signing of the Mayflower Compact

• The Signing of the Declaration of Independence

• The Constitutional Convention

Which of the following BEST describes the overall structure of the article?

• chronological order

• compare and contrast

• problem and solution

• descriptive detail

What do the colonists and the Native Americans DISAGREE about in the article?

• whether or not to trust the English

• who is in charge of the Confederacy

• whether land can be owned

• who should marry Pocahontas

With which statement would Chief Powhatan MOST likely agree?

• John Smith is respectable.

• Do not trust the French.

• Land could be bought and sold.

• Do not kill another man.

What effect did the British and other settlers have on Native American Tribes?

• Positive, Native Americans began selling their land and making money.

• Positive, Native American populations grew as a result of European inventions.

• Negative, Native American Populations decreased because of war and disease.

• Negative, Native Americans were used as primarily as slaves for the European plantations.

Use the information from the article and your knowledge of history to choose the correct statement.

• The British eventually gave up trying to make colonies in the Americas and went back to Europe.

• The French were able to become the most powerful European Nation in the Americas.

• The British continued to conquer more territory from the Indians and tobacco plantations became a source of wealth in Virginia.

• Native Americans were able to regain their land by aligning with the French.