HST 202 Lecture Notes - Cash Crop, Indentured Servant, Natural Resource
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Powhatan: algonquin speaking leader of a group of people in the present day northeast us and also the name for the group of people he led: had power, politics, and culture, located in northeastern us. Coat wearers : name the native americans used for the english. Tsenacomoco: powhatan land near present day virginia where englishmen landed in 1607. Before 1607, coat wearers failed to maintain a colony: lacked survival skills, powhatan men were stolen in 1603 and died back in england. Settlers in planned to stay and locate gold and silver though powhatans were unsure of these intentions. Powhatans: trying to find gold and, unsure of englishmen"s silver, planned to stay, mostly men because they were the ones who built houses, worked the farms, and used violence, hunting was illegal in. poaching if you got caught (only the rich did it as a sport) intentions: thought english lacked survival skills to stay, wondered who would do.
