Journal Entry #1
Who was Squanto? How he helped the Pilgrims and why the Indians resented him? Tisquantum, who also went by Squanto, was a Native American from the Patuxet tribe, who could speak English. Squanto was an interpreter for the pilgrims. He helped negation a treaty of peace and friendship between the pilgrims and Indians. Squanto taught the Pilgrims many different agricultural things like how to plant corn. Pilgrims were grateful to have Squanto in there presents. At times Squanto used is ability to speak English for his own profit. He made it so that the Indians resented him and he would use this to his advantage by forcing them to give donation for his benefit. During one point the chief of the local tribe wanted the pilgrims to hand him over, most like so they could kill him. This did not occurred but it forced Squanto to be very care and to stay by the Pilgrims.
Journal Entry #2
What did tobacco do to the South economically? What affects did tobacco have on the slave population in the South?
Tobacco made the south economically wealth between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the beginning when tobacco was first introduced to farmers most were on the fence about producing it but not before long tobacco was considered to be everyone’s favorite cash crop.…show more content… The British put 4,000 soldiers in Boston, many people did not like the fact that soldiers were there. The Boston massacre was a fight between redcoats and a mob of Boston patriots with the city of Boston. The mob started off small but numbers grew along with attitudes, they threw snowballs with rocks inside of them at the redcoats. Shortly after this the redcoats began panicking and started to open fire on the mob, which left three dead. The British soldiers went to trail and most were acquitted of all charges and two were found guilty of manslaughter. This massacre was a main event which leads to the revolutionary
