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Exploring parties set off up the James River to find a suitable place to settle in.
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Jamestown was discovered/founded by the London Company. There were 3 ships sailed into the Jamestown Harber, they are the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery
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Over half of the Colonists died, most from diseaseand starvation and a few from wounds caused by Indians.
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Captain John Smith had gotten captured by Powhatan. He also gets saved by Pocahontas.
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In 1610 John Rolfe, husband of Pochahontas, introduces tobacco seeds to the Jamestown Colony. He grows a tobacco that is sweet tasting and in much demand in England. Tobacco becomes the Colony's main cash crop.
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Starving Time. From about 300 Colonists were living but then the Starving Time happened and their population went down to about 60 left in Jamestown.
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Pocahontas gets captured by the English. Captain Samuel Argall, held Pocahontas hostage in an attempt to secure the release of some English prisoners and ammunitions that her father, Powhatan, held.
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Pocahontas dies from illness, right when her, her husband, John Rolfe, and her son Thomas set sail to go back to Virginia.
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George Yeardly took past as the new Govener of Virginia (the Great Charter)
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The first Africans arrive in Virginia to be slaves to help harvest and take care of the tobacco crops.
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The Plymouth colony was established in Massachusetts.
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Pamunukey Indians attack the English Settlement and killed 347 people.
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Openchanough leads a Massacre and kills 347 colonists. That starts a war that lasts for almost a decade.
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King James 1 died and was replaced by his Son
