A.P. U.S. History Chapter 2 Overview
English Migration,
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,
Virginia House of Burgesses
17 th Century Population in the Chesapeake
George Calvert, Act of Toleration
The Early Carolinas
Georgia, 1734