Friday, March 1st

[6Jacob]

Jamestown

-first permanent English colony
-established by Virginia Company of London
-Jamestown is located in Virginia
-established as a fort in 1607, then as a town in 1619

John Smith
-communication was decent, but it almost killed him—Pocahontas saved him
-forced to return to England after gunpowder explosion
-next guy to come take leadership was George Percy

Pocahontas
-daughter of Powhatan
-married John Rolfe
-saved John Smith from being killed
-moved back to England with her husband
-done to show that she was a civilized NA
-died a year later from unknown causes, 22 or 23 years old

Chief Opchanacanough
-name meant “He whose Soul is White”
-lead a massacre in 1622 to rid his world of the white man
-raid killed 1/3 of the settlers of Jamestown
-was captured in 1646, and later shot in the back by a guard
-92 years old at his death

-winter of 1609-1610 was known as the “starving time”
-over 80% of the colony died
-most tried cannibalism to stay alive

Bacon’s Rebellion

-first known rebellion where the colonists took part
-“Declaration of the People of Virginia”- criticized Berkeley’s administration in detail, accused him of levying unfair taxes, appointing friends to high positions, failing to protect settlers from Indian attack
-Bacon went and got the Occaneechi Indian tribe to go fight the Susquehanock tribe and when the Occ. left he murdered everyone
-Bacon continued to wage war with the area tribes
-upset that Berkeley hadn’t stepped down from his position of power, started targeting him and his followers
-eventually Berkeley fled and then Bacon burned down Jamestown
-Bacon later died of dysentery before being punished by English forces
-Effects:
-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