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Question 1

Massasoit

Answer 1

Wampanoag sachem

Question 2

Motive for tisquantum and Massasoit’s meeting with the pilgrims

Answer 2

To allow them to stay indefinitely if they ally themselves against the Narragansett

Question 3

Tribe (confederacy) of Indians that Plymouth colony met

Answer 3

Wampanoags

Question 4

Repercussions of Wampanoag and pilgrim alliance.

Answer 4

The survival of the Plymouth colony ensured the British would colonize New England en masse

Question 5

What language did the Wampanoag speak?

Answer 5

Massachusett

Question 6

First US settlements

Answer 6

St. Augustine 1565
Roanoke 1585
Jamestown 1607
Plymouth 1620

Question 7

How did smith first meet tisquantum?

Answer 7

Whaling/fishing and furs excursions off the coast of Maine around 1614, given a brief tour of gardens orchards and great troupes of people. Brought to Spain where he was converted and found his way to England. Found a ride to a settlement on new found land and eventually back to Maine

Question 8

How did tisquantum learn English?

Answer 8

Kidnapped when aboard John smiths lieutenants boat, Thomas hunt, and taken to Europe for 5 years.

Question 9

What did tisquantum find upon his return?

Answer 9

Utterly devoid of life. Ruined homes, field overrun with black berries, and sun bleached skeletons by 1619
Massasoit met tisquantum with around 50 men. Sent them back to France. Hepatitis a probably, had taken 3 years to exhaust itself and kill 90% of the people in NE.

Question 10

How did each side view the pestilence?

Answer 10

That it was divine intervention.

Question 11

What happened after tisquantum was captured by Massasoit?

Answer 11

Extolled the English and proposed brokering a deal to ally the Wampanoag with them against the Narragansett

Question 12

NE smallpox epidemic?

Answer 12

1633, killed a third to a half of Indians in NE

Question 13

Truth about Pocahontas

Answer 13

Mataoka. Priestess in trading. Played a role in a ritual at 12 staged to establish authority over Smith.
Eventually married Rolfe, died sick in England.

Question 14

How did Indians shape their environment?

Answer 14

Almost every Indian group set fire to the woods, plains, and meadows each Fall. The first Settlers remarked the land ape resembled an English park. John smith ride through the Virginia forests at full gallop.

Question 15

What did landscape burning promote?

Answer 15

Import of bison eastward. Spacious groves, garden plots. More herbivores, more predators, more people.

Question 16

Mound builders?

Answer 16

Cahokia, Adena, and hopewell cultures around all the rivers associated with the Mississippi. P

Question 17

Ecological consequences of pestilence among Indians.

Answer 17

Bison were once rarely seen to herds of thousands. Passenger pigeon was rare but then 1/4 of all birds. Well maintained ecosystems were overrun with thick artificial wilderness.