Communism aswell as anti-communism, socialism and liberalism, feminism and sexism,racism and antiracism, pacifism and militarism, are examples of wide-spread ideologies â which may be more or less positive or negative de-pending on our point of view or group membership.
Tobacco was the American colonies' chief export. The Jamestown colonists had not found gold, nor a route to the South Seas, nor the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. But they had found tobacco. Tobacco had brought the settlement from wretched failure to giddying success.
Expected supply ships did not arrive with needed food. The Jamestown settlers sought. help by trading with the Powhatan Indians. The Indians brought corn, fish, oysters, and. bread in exchange for copper utensils, beads, glass trinkets and iron hatchets. During the winter of 1609-10, the colonists who. remained at Jamestown were reduced to eating the.