Question

Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia: Question 4 options: a) was very rare. b) began with the wedding of John Smith and Pocahontas. c) was common. d) produced a member of a British royal family who became an Indian chief. e) created a mixed race of Native Americans who often wound up enslaved.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) began with the wedding of John Smith and Pocahontas.

Intermarriage between English colonists and Native Americans in Virginia began with the wedding of John Smith and Pocahontas.

John Smith was also known as John Rolfe. He was the one who brought the tobacco seed to grow tobacco in the colony of Jamestown, Virginia.

The effects of Rolfe plants of tobacco represented a great opportunity for the prosperity of the Jamestown, Virginia colony. John Rolfe had visited teh Caribbean Island of Trinidad and he brought some tobacco seeds from there.

He used the seeds in Jamestown and it was a complete success. These tobacco leaves were grayer and their flavor was bitter than the European tobacco. In a few words, European people loved it and tobacco became the king of crops in Jamestown.