Multiple choice question from today's AP US History class:
“. . . Because the way of conquering them [Native Americans] is much more easy then of civilizing them by fair means, for they are a rude, barbarous, and naked people, scattered in small companies, which are helps to Victory, but hindrances to Civility. Moreover, victory of them may be gained many ways; by force, by surprise, by famine in burning their Corn, by destroying and burning their Boats, Canoes, and Houses, by breaking their fishing Wares, by assailing them in their huntings, whereby they get the greatest part of their sustenance in Winter, by pursuing them and chasing them with our horses, and blood-Hounds to draw after them and Mastiffs to tear them, which take this naked, tanned, deformed Sausages, for no other than wild beasts, and are so fierce and fell upon them, that they fear them worse than their old Devil which they worship, supposed them to be a new and worse kind of Devils then their own. By these and sundry other ways, as by driving them (when they flee) upon their enemies, who are round about them, and by animating and abetting their enemies against them, may their ruin or subjection be soon effected.”
-- Records of the Virginia Company, 1622
12. What was the immediate effect of the emergence of the tobacco economy in the Chesapeake region on the Native Americans?
a. Depletion of the soil from tobacco cultivation.
b. Loss of land due to encroachments by tobacco farmers.
c. Arrival of more settlers for labor on tobacco farms.
d. Decreased military attacks by the English on Native settlements
