The "starving time" in jamestown during the winter of 1609–1610 was partly the result of select one:
a. colonists being kept barricaded in their palisade by local indians.
b. the extermination of the indians who used to grow crops.
c. an influx of rats from settlers' ships that ate much of the stored grains.
d. a drought that led to crop failures.
e. the sinking of the colonists' supply ship in the atlantic.

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.