John Smith. labored in the woods with their axes. making a clearing and setting up the first factories in the new world. To this group Smith later gave credit for saving the colony of Jamestown and in effect for insuring that America would develop as an Englishspeaking nation. Yet oddly enough these artisans were not Englishmen. but were the earliest Polish immigrants to this country. A few years later the Poles set another precedent in their adopted land. At the time of the election in Virginia of the first legislative body in America. only natives of England were to be allowed to vote.
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