Answer: All of the above.
Explanation:
<span>The first winter was difficult because they had not been accustomed to how cold it could become without a secured shelter. It was also hard because during the previous seasons when the came to America, they were at a large risk of getting diseases that would not show their symptoms until winter. Because of these two hardships they were unable to find enough food for that season. The next year they did much better because they had less people and knew what they had to accomplish to survive the next winter. Don't listen to that because it will get you mixed up. It was hard because they didn't know how to live off of the land, because where they came from(England) they didn't have to garden and plant, they just had stores and that's why. Squanto did show them how to plant, but that was later</span><span /><span>
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"<span>c: they used tree bark to make canoes, and ate a diet based largely on fish" is the best option, since the air around this area tended to be colder than in the East, meaning it was more beneficial to seek food from the water. </span>
Throughout the European colonization of North America by the French and British, tenions between French and British settlers in North America (traders, poachers and the like) built up a deep resentment against each other since they often competed for the same land, same "markets" to trade their goods with the Native Americans, etc. However, the animosity between the two parties goes back a long time, even before the colonization of America, to the times of the One Hundred Years' War, and perhaps, even log before.
You would have to post the story or article you read for me to understand but other than that you should us context clues and re-read the story, hope that helps :D