how important was john smith to the survival of the jamestown?why did pocahontas save smith's life in 1607?
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This sounds like another (do my homework) question to me...
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yes, go to Plymouth and look it up.\nMiles made a contract with all the people on the Mayflower. \nthis is history and easy to look up
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First, to destroy the Disney bubble: Pocahontas (birth name: Matoaka) never married John Smith. Certainly, she participated in her tribe's version of baptism (the "inductee's" head is placed on  a flat surface, tribesmen act as if they are going to club the inductee to death, a member of the tribe covers the inductee's head with his/her body as a sign of adopting the inductee into the tribe, the inductee is "spared" an welcomed as a member), but the two never fell in love to live happily ever after. Pocahontas first married a fellow Indian named Kocoum, was kidnapped for ransom, and then married John Rolfe as a "peace-making marriage," but only after she had converted to Christianity for the "honor of the kingdom." and changed her name to Rebbecca. She was presented to the Queen of England (to satisfy curiosity of what a "savage" looked like and that they could be trained to become civil), and died at 22 from possible pneumonia or tuberculosis as they set sail for Virginia.
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1.) By helping kill the Bank of the United States, he effectively neutered any chance to moderate the Economic Cycle of booms and busts until after the Federal Reserve was established after the Depression. It also put the power in local and state banks - who often played less conservatively with their funds, which lead them to a stream of bank failures whenever the economy had a downturn.\n\n2.) The spoils system, which Jackson meant to use to prevent bureaucratic entrenchment, ended up making every Federal jobholder beholden to political figures, which effectively increased corruption and often meant that jobs were held by political favorites, rather than anyone with actual skill.  This system would later especially harm the Indians - as the various government contracts related to Indians were supplying horribly substandard product, which in turn led to Indian unrest...which lead to more Indian fighting.\n\n3.) Jackson was not *against* the Indians - but he obviously understood that you couldn't have pockets of Indian land surrounded by white settlers, without an endless stream of problems where Federal troops would be forced to mediate between white squatters and Indians. It was very hard to expect Federal troops to fire on white squatters (who were violating the law) to protect Indian land rights.\n\nBy relocating Indians off Eastern land, he effectively ended the cycle of land speculation that had gripped the Eastern States since before the Revolution - where squatters and politicians were constantly trying to lay claims to land that was obviously Indian land, betting that the Government would enforce it. With most Indians tossed out except for those that had reservation, it gave a great deal of stability.\n\n4.) Jackson's efforts to crush the Federalists helped the Democrats push for lower tariffs in 1832 and 1833, which greatly helped foreign trade, until Whigs passed a tariff act in 1842 (the Black Tariff) that knocked international trade with the US in half.
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Hi there;\n\nThe answer is: The Lexington Green located near the old north bridge which connects Lexington and Concord Mass. on April 19, 1775.\n\nHopes that helps. :)\n\nPS. WOOHOO I found it! I knew I could if I kept at it long enough. \nThe first person to give their life in the revolutionary cause was a man by the name of Crispus Attucks. Mr. Attucks was the son of a native African father and a native of the Natick indian tribe. He was killed at the Boston Massacre.\nHe was buried with honors in the Parks street cemetary in Boston.
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What would be a reason to colonize any land?  Why did the Indians come over here way back when the land was connected to Europe?   Hunger for food, wealth, saftey and life.   It is rather silly to equate our feelings and our present laws with the actions and rules that were prevalent in those days.   It was nothing at all to kill for survival and greed in those days.    The Native American also killed, pillaged and raped his neighbor for numerous reasons and it was an accepted fact.   I don't think you can find any other nation in the world that has coddled and repaid their indigenous people as well as has the USA.  Check it out!  Go to an old plantation in the south and look at the slaves quarters, then look at what they came from. Early death in the disease ridden jungles, right? They had it better here as slaves, except with bad slave owners, of course.  Think about it!
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I had to write a DAR essay on this. It was hard. Very hard. I just googled jamestown...you also might want to google jamestown timeline, or timeline of jamestown.
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It sevrved notice to the King of England that the revolt that started in the Colonies in April 1775 was actually a total revolution for Independence.  This let the world know what our intentions were as well and helped in getting us aid in our battle with the English.  The Declaration of Independence also set the tone for the constitution we still have today.
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Whole books about this stuff...In a nut shell...\nNatives and Africans fought on both sides of the Revolution to further their own interests.  Native Americans were the dominant military presence west of the Appalachian Mountains and they fought alongside the English.  They believed the English were their beat hope of keeping American settlers from pouring over the mountains and pushing them off their land.\n\nThere were many tribes, some traditional enemies, and that further complicated their response to the war between American Colonists and the English,\n  Africans and African Americans (remember, at this time the African slave trade was very much alive - not all African slaves were native born) fought for the colonies, and fought well, as free men and on behalf of their masters.  At one point, the British promised freedom to any male slave (and his family) if he escaped and joined the British Army.  Many did.  Others took advantage of masters and overseers' absence to escape from slavery.\n\nJust remember this - no group of people ever acted uniformly.  People act in their own interests.
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Pocahontas was the nickname of Mataoaka, a young emissary between native tribes and English setters in North America's early Colonial period. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, an important chief of several tribes of Algonquian Indians in the Chesapeake Bay region (along the coast of Virginia). Although she is one of the most famous Native Americans in history, biographical details are based on few resources and murky at best. Much of the Pocahontas story came from Captain John Smith (1580-1631), an English promoter of colonization whose most well-known account was published several years after their acquaintance. According to Smith, his life was spared only through the intervention of Pocahontas, who at the time was around 12 years old. The story took on a romanticized flavor in the 19th century and over the years has been retold as a love story, but there is general agreement that Smith and Pocahontas were not sweethearts.
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Here is a teaser, read the bottom for the rest\n\nSamuel de Champlain (1567?-1635) was a French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec. Champlain also discovered the lake named for him (Lake Champlain, on the border of northern New York state and Vermont, named in 1609) and was important in establishing and administering the French colonies in the New World.\n\nIn 1603, Champlain sailed to France on Francois Grave Du Pont's expedition. They sailed up the St. Lawrence River and the Saguenay River; they also explored the Gaspe Peninsula. He returned to France in 1603, and decided to search for a Northwest Passage and to settle the Gaspe Peninsula. \n\nYou can find the rest of the details here\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/champlain.shtml
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depending on your age, a man named James F. cooper wrote a few good books, mostly about a man named leatherstocking, but he adds great historical detail about indians. From what I read, they (like most indians) used plants for medican...if that doesn't help much, go to google.com, then type your question. I t will come up with a buch of sites that will answer your question!
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(whoever answered Gettysburg missed the boat by about eighty years)\n\nIt's a toss-up.  The battle of Trenton, when Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve 1776 to capture the Hessian camp, could be considered the most important because almost all of the entire Continental Army was about to go home (their enlistment period expired at the end of the year), and the win breathed new life into our army, which had been on the run for over three months.\n\nThe other choice is the battle of Saratoga, in October 1777.  We forced the surrender of a major British army (c. 8000 men, under "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne) and when the news of this reached Europe, France agreed to a formal alliance--which took a lot of pressure off the colonies as the British considered the French their primary enemy from mid-1778 on.\n\nGiven the two, I'd pick Trenton.  The army might have disappeared if not for George Washington's victories there and at Princeton (3 Jan 1777).
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I'm assuming that by "pilgrims" you mean the small group of English settlers who landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. The answer is, that mostly they were on pretty good terms with the Indians for quite a few years, but there were many other groups of English settlers who came to New England in the following years, and eventually in 1675 there was an out and out war between the settlers and indians and thousands were killed on each side. This is called King Phillip's War and you can easily get lots of info about it online.
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Beaver was the most valuable per pelt, during the real fur trapping days, and not the buffalo slaughtering days. Check this out:
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"Joseph Ranger, a free man of color who enlisted in Virginia's navy in 1776, served on four ships during the American Revolution. He, like many other African Americans, devoted his life to the United States, only to be thrust into the most dangerous situations by the same organization he was so readily willing to defend. Most of the blacks who served in the Revolutionary navy were, for the most part, orderlies or ordinary seamen. A few fortunate African Americans were able to work their way up to pilots, but this was extremely rare."\n\nhttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1157/is_n1_v61/ai_20787857
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Although he didn't live long enough to really enjoy it - the first man to make a fortune was John Rolfe who invented through cross-pollenation a newer sweeter-weed of tobacco that became hugely popular and made the Virginia colony financially viable.\n\nGood Luck :-)!!!