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1st place in present-day Virginia, the soil is bad, water is bad. They Go inland and establish Jamestown, named after king James. -
John Smith allied with a nearby native tribe called the Powhatans.
Pocahontas is the most famous Powhatan and married john Rolfe at 14 and died at 21. The Powhatans help the English settlers -
The starving happens when the food sources became scarce, they could find anything to eat, is cold, they try forging for food but it's winter, boiling and eating leather products, all the leather dried up and they started digging up freshly buried bodies and eating them.
85% of the original settlers died
John Rolfe starts growing tobacco in 1616 in 1617 the first shipment to England -
Establish the house of burgesses' first-time government in the new world and had 20 people, their wealthy white men with land. A dutch slave ship sells 20 slaves to the colonies -
Virginia is the first colony to establish laws about slavery, slaves are property, slaves are tithable, slave marriage is not recognized, children born to slaves are slaves, -
"All Negroes or other slaves hereafter imported into province shall serve for life as should their children" -
Devastated Native Americans of southern New England
Wampanoag Plymouth's chief ally
Massasoit Gave them corn, and land, and showed them how to plant
Metacom (King Phillip) Metacom won a series of victories
Possesed needed Corn, English annihilated
Strike against Narragansett-Great Swamp (Rhode Island), 300 Native Americans died (Narragansett and Wampanoag)
War Slowing Down
Native Americans: Facing starvation
King Philips's head was displayed on a pole in Plymouth for the next 20 years -
Because of the rebellion that he created his death was the central turning point in the history of slavery in Virginia -
Virginia slaves accused of committing capital crimes were prohibited from asserting the right to trial by jury or right to appeal a conviction.New laws defined slavery not only as a lifetime status but also an inherited one invariably passed on to one's child -
February- Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, Tituba: Caribbean Indian Slave
Betty and Abigail named-Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne.
May: 2 dozen accused
A special court of Oyer and terminer
June: accusations spread to neighboring cities
October: 140 indicted, 50 confessed, 26 convicted, 20 executed, 1 crushed to death by stones
Courts refused to take later chargers seriously