US History: Native Americans and the first settlements
Pocahontas was kidnapped by the English and held at Jamestown.
While captive, Pocahontas studied English and converted to Christianity. Then, in 1614, she wed John
Rolfe, one of the first tobacco farmers, and the union brought a modicum of peace to tidewater Virginia.
Known as Lady Rebecca Rolfe, Pocahontas traveled with her husband and infant son, Thomas, to
England, where she was received as foreign royalty, an Indian Princess.
On March 17th, 1617, she died from an infection in Gravesend, England at the age of twenty-two.
Immediately, the tenuous peace between the Powhatan and the English crumbled and the brutality rose on
both sides.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
"An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio,"
was adopted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787. Also known as the the Ordinance of 1787,
the Northwest Ordinance established a government for the Northwest Territory, outlined the process
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