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How did John Smith save Jamestown?

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  • Rovert
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    hey tina...

    Did that work for you last time?

    Getting someone else to do your history paper on yahoo answers?

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    did it?

    It did?

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  • 1 decade ago

    John Smith convinced them to sell tobacco. He was saved by Pocahontas but she didn't marry him. She actually married John Rolfe, the second leader of Jamestown when John Smith got injured and went back to England.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    fyi john rolfe had the tobacco idea,john smith did not save jamestown john rolfe did

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  • Two things, both very simple:

    First, he came up with a rule that those who would not work could not eat. Suddenly people took an increased interest in food production.

    Second, he started the colonists working on growing tobacco. It was more lucrative than searching for gold, thereby rendering the colony viable (meaning it had a purpose to continue).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    With his trusty sidekick Indian Reginald Van Scout.And he got paid in radishes.

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