A.P. U.S. History

Chapter 2 Overview

English Migration, 1610-1660

Jamestown Fort and Settlement

How Bad Did It Get?

• “…so great was our famine, that a Savage we slew, and buried, the poorer sort tooke him up againe and eat him, and so did divers one another boyled and stewed with roots and herbs: And one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered [salted] her, and had eaten part of her before it was knowne, for which he was executed…

• “as hee well deserved; now whether shee was better roasted, boyled or carbonado’d, I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of. This was that time, which still to this day we called the starving time.”

John Smith

Pocahontas

Chesapeake Bay Settlements

Powhatan Indian Village

Indian Foods

John Rolfe and his Industry

English Tobacco Label

Tobacco Prices, 1618-1710

Virginia House of Burgesses

17th Century Population in the Chesapeake

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George Calvert, Act of Toleration

The Early Carolinas

Georgia, 1734