- Jamestown
- Date Settled/Conquered
- First permanent English colony.
- Established by Virginia Company of London.
- Jamestown is located in current day Virginia.
- Mother country is England.
- Established as a fort in 1607, as a town in 1619.
- Key Players
- Captain John Smith
- Did a decent job at communicating with the Natives even though it almost cost him his life, Pocahontas saved him.
- He was forced to return back to England after an explosion.
- The next guy to come take leadership was George Percy (personified as a dog in the movie Pocahontas, because he was awful).
- Pocahontas
- Daughter of Powhatan
- Married John Rolfe, not John Smith.
- Did however save John Smith from being killed by her father.
- Moved back to England with her husband
- This was done to show that she could be a civilized Indian.
- She died a year later from unknown cause, she was only 22 or 23.
- Chief Opchanacanough
- His name meant "He whose Soul is White".
- Lead a massacre in 1622 to rid his world of the white man.
- This raid killed 1/3 of the settlers of Jamestown.
- Was captured in 1646, and later shot in the back by guard.
- He was 92 when he died.
- Captain John Smith
- Jamestown Ugly Winter
- The winter of 1609-1610 was known as the "starving time".
- Over 80 percent of the colony died.
- Most tried cannibalism to stay alive.
- One man killed his own wife in her sleep and ate her.
- Bacon's Rebellion.
- First known rebellion where the colonists took part in present day USA.
- "Declaration of the People of Virginia." The declaration criticized Berkeley's administration in detail. It accused him of levying unfair taxes, appointing friends to high positions, and failing to protect frontier settlers from Indian attack.
- Bacon went out and got the Occaneechi Indian tribe to go fight the Susquehanock tribe and when the Occ. left, he murdered their men, women and children that stayed behind.
- He would continue to wage war with the Indian tribes in the area.
- He was upset that Berkeley still hadn't stepped down from his position of power and started targeting him and his followers.
- Eventually Berkeley fled and then Bacon burned down the city of Jamestown.
- Bacon later died of dysentery before England could send forces to punish him.
- Effects of the Rebellion
- Many of Bacon's followers went back to England.
- 23 of Bacon's followers that stayed were hanged.
- Charles the II then relieved Berkeley of his duties because he was upset that he had killed more men than he did for the killing of his father.
- Date Settled/Conquered
Research
*Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Love or political move.
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*Cannibalism could you... yes or no? explain.
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*2 paragraphs total.
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