trade with the natives

rule their own colony

wealth & gold

religious freedom

Many had come only to seek gold, so there were not enough people growing the food needed to feed the colony.

Pocahontas visited Jamestown several times. She and her people brought food to trade to the few surviving colonists .

The settlers built Jamestown on a marsh. The water around the town was dirty and salty and the land was bad for farming.

Mosquitoes in the marsh carried a deadly disease called malaria which killed many of the settlers.

The natives had rivalries with neighboring tribes.

The natives fought along side of the settlers in King Philip's war.

Metacom decided to call himself "Philip", which was an English name.

Pocahontas married John Rolfe and traveled to England.

John Smith became the leader of the colony. He knew that the settlement needed everyone's help to survive.

John Smith said that any man who would not work to maintain Jamestown would not eat

John Smith told the settlers not to built on a marsh.

John Smith asked the wealthy settlers to leave the colony.

Native Americans had rivalries that existed before the settlers came.

Many Native Americans had different religions.

When Powhatan died, his brother became chief, and the peace between the American Indians and the settlers ended.

They had different opinions of the settlers arrival.

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Nearly half of the 102 Pilgrims died of disease and starvation before spring. Only a few settlers remained healthy enough to care for the others.

Captain John White went back to England for supplies but did not return.

The Separatists decided to move to a place where they could be free to practice their own religion. In time, this group came to be known as the Pilgrims.

The first winter was very difficult. The Pilgrims had landed too late in the year to plant crops, and they faced a cold and hard climate.

John Smith was captured by the Native Americans and saved by Pocahontas.

Squanto also told the Pilgrims about the many American Indians who had died from a disease that they had caught from English and French fishermen.

Squanto stayed with the Pilgrims and taught them how to plant corn, catch fish, and get sweet syrup from maple trees.

Trade wasn't very important, the settlers were more worried about farming.

Trade and cooperation was important to the new settlers to create wealth for Europe.

The settlers only traded with the Native Americans not each other.

The settlers eventually used slavery to grow and trade cash crops.

The American Indians were natives to the land the settlers were trying to build colonies on.

The English settlers bought diseases that wiped out native tribes.

Squanto tried to help the Pilgrims by teaching them how to farm and use the land.

The Roanoke tribe disappeared and was v=never to be found again.