Pocahontas for class

1. Pocahontas
1595-1617

2. TEKS
5th Grade
History. The student understands the causes and effects of
European colonization in the United States beginning in 1565,
the founding of St. Augustine. The student is expected to:
(B) describe the accomplishments of significant individuals
during the colonial period, including William Bradford, Anne
Hutchinson, William Penn, John Smith, John Wise, and Roger
Williams.

3. • Pocahontas was born in about 1595
• Her original name was “Amonute”
• She went by Pocahontas which meant “playful
one”
• She was from the Powhatan Chiefdom and the
daughter of the chief.

4. Meeting of John Smith
• John Smith was captured by Chief Powhatan’s
brother, Opechancanough.
• John Smith was taken to Chief Powhatan and
he was to be executed.
• John Smith was told to put his head down on
a rock to be clubbed.

5. Pocahontas Steps In
• Just as John Smith was about to be executed,
Pocahontas stepped in and laid her head on
his, stopping the execution.
• Some believe that John Smith was not really
going to be executed, that it was just an
‘adoption ceremony.’
• John Smith was excepted into the tribe and
allowed to leave.

6. Return to Jamestown
• Once John Smith returned to Jamestown, Chief
Powhatan would send food to the starving
English.
• Pocahontas would usually bring the food because
she was a sign of peace to the English.
• Pocahontas was sometimes seen playing with the
young English, living up to her name “playful
one”

7. Trouble Brewing
• Over time, relations between the Powhatans and
the English deteriorated, but Pocahontas’s did
not.
• At times, the Powhatans were trading corn for
trinkets that the English would bring.
• The English were demanding more food, but the
Powhatans could not give them any due to a
draught.

8. Trouble…
• The English started burning down Powhatan
tribes in order to get more food.
• Pocahontas went and warned John Smith that
her father was planning on killing him.
• She never saw him in Virginia again.

9. Kidnapping
• In 1613, Captain Samuel Argall decided he would
kidnap Pocahontas in hopes of making the
relationship between the English and Powhatans
• After her capture, she was taken to Jamestown
• While captured, Pocahontas learned the English’s
customs and religion

10. Time in Jamestown
• Still in Jamestown, she met a man named John
Rolfe and fell in love
• In 1614 Pocahontas and John Rolfe got
married and she changed her name to
Rebecca.
• In 1616 Pocahontas ran into John Smith again.

11. Seeing John Smith Again
• Pocahontas was angry at John Smith for the
way they treated his father.
• She reminded John Smith how her people
took him in and gave them food.

12. The Ending Day
• Pocahontas fell ill traveling from England back
to Jamestown.
• She died in the town of Gravesend at around
the age of 21 on March 21, 1617.
• She was buried at St. George’s Church.