The Good Friday massacre mounted by the Powhatan Indians in 1622 resulted in:
a. long term peace between the English and the natives for twenty years.
b. the destruction of the Virginia colony which moved to New England for safety.
c. the death of one-quarter of the Virginia colonists in a single day and the revoking of the company's charter two years later.
d. total defeat for the Protestants in Maryland.
ANSWER: c
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