settlements and colonies in present day america
- roanoke
- queen elizabeth I granted sir walter raleigh a charter to go settle in north america
- established in 1585
- mother country is england
- first english colony
- key players
- sir walter raleigh
- writer, poet, soldier, and explorer
- married a lady in waiting (assistant) to queen elizabeth I
- when back in england, the king had him locked up
- he then was released and set out to find the city of gold
- he was later imprisoned again but this time he was executed
- raleigh NC is named after him
- one of the biggest tobacco producers in usa, part of tobacco road
- Virginia Dare
- first child born in america to english parents
- granddaughter to john white
- john white
- english artist
- known for being the 1st governor of roanoke
- went back to England to resupply for the roanoke settlement and when he returned all that was left was the word Cro probably the indian tribe Croaton
- the houses were disassembled so it is very unlikely that they left quickly or forced to leave.
- sir walter raleigh
- known as the lost colony
- how they may have died out:
- captured by indians
- lost at sea
- spanish
- dare stones
- virginia pars map
Jamestown
- first permanent english colony
- estalished by virginia company of london
- jamestown is located in current day virginia
- mother country is england
- established as a fort in 1607, a town in 1619
- key players:
- captain john smith
- did a decent job at communicating with the natives even though it almost cost his life, pocahontas saved him
- forced to return back to england after an explosion
- the next guy to come take leadership was george percy
- pocahontas
- daughter of the 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 civilized indian
- she died a year later from unknown causes, 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 a guard
- he was 92 years old when he died
- captain john smith
- jamestown ugly winter
- the winter of 1609-1610 was known as the starving time
- over 80% 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 coloniest took part in present day usa
- "Declaration of the people of Virgina" 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 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 Berkeley still hadn't stepped down from his power and started targeting him and his followers
- eventually berkeley fled and then bacon burned down the city of jamestown
- bacon later died of dysentry before england could send forces to punish him.
- lasting effects of the rebellion
- many of bacons followers went back to england
- 23 of bacons followers that stayed were hanged
- charles the II then relieved berkeley of his power because he was upset that he had killed more men than he did for the killing of his father
love or political move? -one paragraph
I believe that the marriage between Pocahontas and John Rolfe was a political move. John Smith was gone and Pocahontas was trying to keep peace with Jamestown. I also think that part of it could have been love, but it was the first interracial marriage and things like that didn't just happen without conflict. Still, there had to be love between them if Pocahontas was willing to travel all the way to England with Rolfe just to prove to his people that she was civilized.
cannibalism?
Cannibalism in itself is one thing, but eating family members is a new thing entirely. I would rather die then have to eat someone I love just to stay alive. As for becoming a statistic, I'd rather be that then be known for having to eat people because the town was starving. Yes, I don't know what it's like to really be starving, and I realize that the situation was desperate. I wouldn't be able to do it.
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