Pocahontas - Multiple Choice Cloze
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Pocahontas was one of the most famous
in Native American history. The daughter of tribal
helped the leader of the first colonists, John Smith, when he was taken
by Indians. They wanted to kill him but Pocahontas
her father to save him.
During the first few years the Indians got along very well with the white
. Pocahontas visited Jamestown and traded goods with white people. As time went on, the
between the settlers and Indians became more and more
. They turned into enemies. When the English settlers
the Indians of stealing goods from them they took Pocahontas prisoner. During this time she fell in love with an Englishman, John Rolfe, whom she married in 1614.
Two years later, Pocahontas sailed to London with her new husband to get money for the
. There, the Indian princess was introduced to King James I . Back in Virginia, Pocahontas fell ill and
back to London again to visit her son Thomas, who went to school there. Shortly
she died. Pocahontas played an important part in early American history and helped colonists
their first winters.
Statue of Pocahontas
Image:
Ethan Doyle White
,
CC BY-SA 4.0
, via Wikimedia Commons
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