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When queen Elizabeth send Raleigh to Roanoke island
Queen Elizabeth let Raleigh to send over 1 hundred men to Roanoke Island after two of his explorers found it be a perfect place for a settlement. However, they were not friendly with my people in that area and even killed the chief. -
Oh No!
I found out that some of my men were killed by my people. Then Fernandez demanded they settle here instead of Chesapeake Bay because he wanted to get back to a dispute starting to fester between Spain and England. -
The Spanish and White returned to Roanoke
It took England two years to defeat the Spanish and when White returned to Roanoke he had a grave discovery. Nobody was there it was like they disappeared into thin air the word Croatoan was carved nearby. Croatoan was a local tribe. -
It was successful!
A group of over 100 men landed on the banks of Virginia's James River which was not healthy to drink they were immediately attacked by some of of my people but were determined to stay. Their leader, John Smith, ordered them to build a fort for protection. -
Boo hoo!
Captain Smith returned to England in 1609 when he became ill and he stopped coming around the settlement to the relations between the settlers and the Powhatan nation weakened. -
Big Year!
It was a big year in Jamestown the first elected assembly was established called the House of Burgesses then black workers called indentured servants arrived by boat to work a plot of land to later own it. -
The bad weather
My parents had to find ways to protect themselves during bad weather they also had to live on salted beef,dried biscuits called hard tack ans other dried vegetables until they were able to cook on the deck it took over 2 months to sail from England to the New world. -
Thanksgiving
Governor William Bradford held a celebration feast they wanted to share there harvest of food with the Wampanoags so they invited Squanto,Chief Massasoit, and 90 Wampanoags. There celebration lasted three days this began a tradition in America that you call thanksgiving. -
Plymouth
They traveled across Massachusetts Bay to a rocky harbor called Plymouth. There was a humongous rock that we named Plymouth Rock that still sits there today. -
Pennsylvania
To give me land in the New World that was southwest of New Jersey, He owed my deceased father for a loan. They thought they would call it Sylvania which means "woods", but later called it Pennsylvania. They guaranteed free and fair trial by jury.
