What Was Colonial Life Really Like?

What Was Colonial Life Really Like? Daily American Colonial Life was extremely harsh for the first settlers and colonists. They were faced with a new country, unknown territory and no friends, relatives or neighbours to help them. The first colonists endured a terrible period between 1609-1610 that would become known as the ‘Starving Time’. What

What Did Chief Pontiac Do?

What Did Chief Pontiac Do? Pontiac, (born c. 1720, on the Maumee River [now in Ohio, U.S.]—died April 20, 1769, near the Mississippi River [at present-day Cahokia, Ill.]), Ottawa Indian chief who became a great intertribal leader when he organized a combined resistance—known as Pontiac’s War (1763–64)—to British power in the Great Lakes area. Why