Jamestown
- First permanent English colony
- Established by the 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 (Jamestown):
John Smith
- Did a decent job at communication with the Native 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 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
- She died a year later from unknown causes, she was only 22 or 23 when she died
Chief Opchanacanough
- His named 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
James town 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 how 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" The declaration criticized Berkeley's administration in detail. It accused him o levying unfair taxes, appointing friends to high positions, and failing to protect frontier settlers from Indian attack
- Bacon went out and got the Occaneddchi 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 position of power and started targeting him and his follwers
- Eventually Berkley 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 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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