Name: Grace September
Making Thirteen Colonies Homework
Directions: Read chapters 3 in Making Thirteen Colonies. Answer the following questions below. Read carefully and be sure to answer ALL parts of each question. Use complete sentences. Be sure to use textual evidence and analysis for questions 2 and 3.
Questions From Chapter 3:
- Briefly identify the following names/terms:
- Werowance-
The Werowance were the leaders of the smaller tribes inside the Powhatan area. They worked with and for Powhatan but Powhatan was more powerful. They are really rich, Werowance translates to he is rich.
- Estuary-
An Estuary is a body of water that is made from the ocean. This means that over time the ocean poured out and eventually was made into an Estuary.
- Powhatan (the man)-
Powhatan was the leader of a giant area of land. He had over 100 wives and 9,000 subjects. He and Captain Christopher Newport became good friends. Christofer was given Powhatan’s decorated deerskin.
- Powhatan Indians-
The Powhatan indians were Powhatan’s followers. They first started off small but soon they had taken over villages and thousands of individual indians and even whole tribes.
- Describe the region in which the Powhatans lived. (Use textual evidence.)
The Powhatan indians lived in East Virginia. “The area surrounded the Chesapeake bay, and went west to mountain foothills and south to what would someday be North Carolina’s border.” (Page 22) This was an area of fertile land, with rivers, bays and estuaries. There were lots of animals in the land and sea, such as ducks, geese, wild turkeys and deer. “There was much small game in the region, such as raccoons, opossum, squirrel, turkey, and rabbit.” (page 22)
- Describe the way the Powhatans lived. (Use textual evidence.)
The Powhatan indians were woodland indians. They hunted and fished and farmed. “The men hunted, fished and fought, while the woman farmed.” (page 22) These people grew vegetable such as corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins. Corn was their most important food and it was more than half of what they ate. The Powhatans used the corn to make pancakes that served as bread and rice. “Aside from corn, the food they ate changed with the seasons: fresh vegetables in the summer and fall; game in winter; and fish and stored nuts, and berries in the spring. The children helped their parents but they didn’t go to work until they were young adults. “The boys threw stones at rabbits or other animals that might nibble at the crops. It trained their throwing arms, and that helped when they became hunters.” (page 22) Men and women tattooed beautiful designs all over themselves, and hung animal claws and even live snakes around their necks. Powhatans also ware deerskin in the winter to keep them warm.