Jamestown
- First Permanent English Colony
- Established by Virginia Company of London
- Jamestown is located in current day Virginia
- Mother Country is England
- Established in 1607 as a fort and as a town in 1619
- Key players
- John Smith
- Did a decent job at communicating with the Natives 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
- John Smith
- Pocahontas
- Daughter of 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
- Chief Opachanacanough
- His name meant “He whose soul is white”
- Lead a massacre in 1622 to rid his world of the white man
- The raid killed a third 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 took part in present day USA
- “Declaration of the People of the 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 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 followers
- Eventually Berkeley fled and ten Bacon burned down the city of Jamestown
- Bacon later died of dysentery before England could send forces to punish him
- Lasting effects
- 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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