Jamestown
- First permanent English colony
- Established by Virginia Company of London
- Jamestown is located in current day Virginia
- Mother country: England
- Established as a fort in 1607, as a town in 1619
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
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 – could be a civilized Indian
- Died a year later from unknown causes, she was only 22 or 23
Chief Opochanacanough
- 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 a guard
- He was a 92 years old when he died
The 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 even killed his own wife in her sleep and ate her
Bacon’s Rebellion
- First known rebellion where the colonist took part in present day U.S.A
- “Declaration of the People of Virginia.” It 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 and got the Occaneechi Indian tribe to go fight the Susquehanock tribe and when the OCC. Left then he murdered their men, women and children
- He would continue to wage war with the Indian tribes in the area
- He was upset that Berkley 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
- 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
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