Native American Exclusion
A Milestone Documents E-text
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844520.book.part.012

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Abstract

The process by which English settlers drove the natives out of the Chesapeake region was long and complex, beginning with the first settlement in the region at Jamestown in 1607. A basic motivation was English land hunger, particularly with the economic success of tobacco growing. The desire for land on which to grow tobacco drove the English settlers to constantly seek to expand the area they controlled. The major native power in the region was the Powhatan Confederacy, an Algonquian-speaking group led by a chief named Powhatan, who had established rule over much of what is now eastern Virginia.

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