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the three ships sighted the land as virginia
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smith was elected president of the verginia council.
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a fleet with more than 300 new settlers arrived in verginia.
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dela warr set about to rebuild the colony.
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Gates decided to abandon all the settlers at jamestown and return to england.
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Cheif powahaten died.
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The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth to establish a colony in “Northern
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Approximately 90 women arrived in Virginia to supplement those
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The settlers, hoping to produce silk, planted mulberry trees to feed silkworms. They had little success.
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Opechancanough led the Powhatan Indians in an uprising, killing about
one-third of the 1200 colonists in Virginia. Jamestown was warned and was not attacked, but survivors flocked to its fortification. Many outlying settlements were abandoned, and much sickness followed the uprising. -
The King’s Privy Council set up a commission to investigate the Virginia Company and conditions in Virginia.
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Virginia became a royal colony. The Virginia Company was forced to yield its control to royal authority. King James I retained Governor Wyatt as the first royal governor.
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A muster or census ordered by the Crown was taken, showing a total population of 1232 settlers and including numbers of weapons,Livestock, grain,
