Jamestown
- first permanent English colony
- established by Virginia Company of London
- established as a fort in 1607, as a town in 1619
- in current day Virginia
- Captain John Smith
- did a decent job at communicating with the Native even though it almost cost him his life, Pocahontas saved him
- He was forced to return back to England after a gunpowder explosion
- George Percy came to take leadership next
- 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 a civilized Indian
- died a year later from unknown causes, she was only 22 or 23 yrs old
- Chief Opchanacanough
- his name meant "He whose Soul is White"
- lead a massacre in 1622 to rid his world of the white man
- the raid killed 1/3 of the settlers of Jamestown
- Captured in 1646, and later shot in the back by a guard
- he was 92 yrs old when he died
- Ugly Winter
- 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 colonist took part in present day U.S.A.
- the "Declaration of the People of Virginia" criticized Berkeley's administration
- Bacon went out and got the Occaneechi Indian tribe to go fight the Susquehanock tribe, and when the Occ. tribe left, he murdered their men, women, and children that were left behind in the village
- he continued 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
- Lasting effects of the Rebellion
- many of Bacon's followers went back to England
- 23 of Bacon's followers that stayed were hanged
- Charles 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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