Notes:
Roanoke:
- March 25, 1584, Queen Elizabeth I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to go settle in North America
- Established in 1585
- it is an colonies that was funded and set up by London CO., so mother country is England
- first English Colony
- Key Player
- Sir Walter Raleigh writer, poet, soldier, and explorer Married a lady in waiting 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 N.C. is named after him
- 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 Roanoke settlement and when he returned all that was left was the word "Cro" probability for the word Croaton which was an Indian tribe Interesting Facts known as the "Lost Colony" how they may have died captured by Indian tribes lost at sea Spanish Dare Stones Virgina Pars Map
Jamestown:
- first permanent English colony
- established by 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
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 an explosion
- the next guy to come take leadership was George Percy
Pocahontas
- daughter of the Powhatan
- married to 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
Chief Opachanacanough
- 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
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 colonists took part in present day USA
- "Declaration of the People of Virginia" 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 Susquechanock 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 followers
- Eventually Berkeley fled and the 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 hung
- 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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