important Jamestown

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  • The founding

    The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts

  • problems (unknown date)

    Serious problems soon emerged in the small English outpost, which was located in the midst of a chiefdom of about 14,000 Algonquian-speaking Indians ruled by the powerful leader Powhatan. Relations with the Powhatan Indians were tenuous, although trading opportunities were established. An unfamiliar climate, as well as brackish water supply and lack of food, conditions possibly aggravated by a prolonged drought, led to disease and death

  • John smith became leader

    Captain John Smith became the colony’s leader in September 1608

  • starving period (unknown date)

    many people starve and die

  • settlers can be goverment unknown date

    In 1619 with the convening of a general assembly, at the request of settlers who wanted input in the laws governing them.

  • the first africans unknown date

    The first documented Africans in Virginia arrived in 1619

  • british america unknown date

    he first representative government in British America began at Jamestown in 1619