Jamestown, New York

Building the new nation The pioneers were first people that came to American, They came for freedom and to get rich. The continent was rich in the most valuable resource ? land. As many as 60 million buffalo thundered over its vast. The came looking for gold and silver expecting an Eldorado John Rolfe an English farmer and entrepreneur came to Jamestown. Rolfe brought seeds of a particular strain of sweet tobacco, previously grown only by the Spanish The plants grew well in the rich soil of Virginia, springing up in the gardens and the marketplace of Jamestown. Tobacco was sought in England where it was shipped to. The colony was soon the leading tobacco supplier to all of Europe. John Ralph married Pocahontas. The marriage interracial marriage in American history