1) Discussion Question #1
Would the settlers be living if they did not have John Smith?
No they would be dead because he helped trade with the Indians.
2) Discussion Question #2
Would the settlers be ok without the Indians helping them?
No the Indians would have killed them.
3) Discussion Question #3
What do you think the exploration would have been like if the Indians weren't there?
Hard because the Indians were helping them eat and drink.
4) Discussion Question #4
Are the settlers afraid of the indians?
If they were not helping them they would probably be scared.
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This drawing is when Captain Newport, the one-armed captain sails back into Virginia and saves Captain Smith from being hanged. He also takes Master Archer off of the council for wrongly accusing Smith of murder. This is a very important event because without Captain Smith, the Powhatan/settler peace could’ve been effected.
As a young man, Christopher Newport sailed with Sir Francis Drake in the daring attack on the Spanish fleet at Cadiz and participated in England's defeat of the Spanish Armada.
He chose the site for Jamestown, led the initial exploration for King James, and negotiated peacefully with Chief Powhatan's Indian tribes.
Captain of the Susan Constant, the largest ship of the three to the Virginia Company.
In 1612, at the age of 17, Pocahontas was treacherously taken prisoner by the English while she was on a social visit, and was held hostage at Jamestown for over a year.
Yet in an account Smith wrote after his winter stay with Powhatan's people, he never mentioned such an incident. In fact, the starving adventurer reported he had been kept comfortable and treated in a friendly fashion as an honored guest of Powhatan and Powhatan's brothers
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