civics

In Civics we were talking about the settlement of America. I really do not know why we are talking about that in Civics because that should be for US history. I always thought that Civics was about economics and how the government functions and operates, but I absolutely love history so I can just sit back and enjoy long lectures of history and still find it fun and attractive. Today in class we were taking notes and watching videos of how they settle here and how the Pilgrims made an alliance with the Indians. The Indians help the settlers and taught the settlers how to plant and life off of the new land. The videos were were really nice I liked them because they were in HD and they were kept in focus, the videos were also fun because it was not someone talking, it was somebody making a scene like if you were actually there. It was hard because the terrible winter of 1609 made a lot of the settlers to leave their new life. Only sixty out of the two hundred and fourteen settlers survived the very hard winter, which was also hard on Indian tribes and other neighboring Native Americans. Jamestown made it because one smart man knew that in England people were hook on tobacco so he decided to come to America and plant tobacco which was one of the main crops grown by the English settlers, they sold to Native Americans and to people back in England. Tobacco became a very popular crop because it was easy to grow and because it brought in so much money. Once the money started flowing in regularly, the Jamestown colony grew, as did other settlements in Virginia and in other states along the eastern seaboard. This was the beginning of the country in which we live in today.