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Three ships sighted the land of Virginia and were attacted by indians
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John Smith was released by Powhatan and returned to Jamestown
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Smith was elected to be president of the Virginia Concil
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Due to lack of supplies gates closed and they decied to abandon Jamestown and return to England
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Captan Argall captured Pochahontas and took her back to Jamestown as a hostage.
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John Rofle had sent his first shipment of tabacco to England.
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A big year: a boatload of africans, a boatload of women, labor strike, English settlers owned land, they elected law makers.
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First law recived that tobacco must be sold for three pounds per shillings
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Virginia house of Burgesses meets for the first time.They could make laws and they could be voted by the governer or the Virginia company. This contiued until 1624 when Virgina became a colony.
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The Powhatan Indian attack killed 347 colonists, the war lasted a decade
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The Abigal arrives and has no food and an infectous load of passengers because of this people starve and there are onle 500 people left in the colony.
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Cheif Opechancanough leads a group of indians in an attack; killing nearly 500 colonists
