Question

How did the Jamestown colonists affect the local ecosystem? A) They allowed salt water from the ocean to contaminate the supply of fresh water. B) They over-fished the rivers and streams, leaving the Indian tribes to turn to farming. C) They produced a crop that required a lot of land and made it hard to grow other crops. D) They introduced firearms, leading the Indians to over-hunt the local wildlife. E) They used faulty techniques of growing corn that devastated the soil.

Answer 1

The answer is. They produced a crop that required a lot of land and made it hard to grow other crops

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) They produced a crop that required a lot of land and made it hard to grow other crops.

The Jamestown colonists affected the local ecosystem in that they produced a crop that required a lot of land and made it hard to grow other crops.

Jamestown, Virginia, was the first English colony in North America. It was founded in 1607. It was John Rolfe, who brought some tobacco seeds from the Caribbean island of Trinidad and seeded them in Jamestown with so much success that tobacco became the king of crops in Virginia.