How were the English able to displace the thriving Powhatan people from their Chesapeake homelands in the seventeenth century?

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For this assignment, you will write a 500-word essay that answers the question above. This essay will need an appropriate introduction, a clear thesis statement that provides the reader with a roadmap for the rest of your essay, suitable topic sentences, body paragraphs that use primary source evidence in support of your thesis, and a conclusion that briefly restates the essay’s main points. This paper must be computer-generated, with standard one-inch margins and 12 pt. font. It should also be single-spaced, which will make it about 1-page in length.  The template link below demonstrates exactly how this paper should be organized and formatted.  Regarding citations, simply place the page number from The Powhatans and the English in the Seventeenth Century  in parenthesis at the end of sentences in which you are paraphrasing and/or quoting specific evidence.  Please notice in the following example that the citation comes before the period at the end of the sentence.   Captain Christopher Newport wrote, “There is a King in this land call great Powhatan, under whose dominion are at least 20ty severall kingdoms, yet each King potent as a prince in his own territory” (43).