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In the winter of 1609-1610, disease, violence, drought, a meager harvest lead to Jamestown going into a starvation. People started eating horses, rats, and even ate people. -
Jamestown is the first settlement formed by the English in the New World. -
Tobacco was firs produced by John Rolfe saving Jamestown form the starving times. -
In 1619, 20 African slaves were brought to Jamestown from the Dutch. -
Indians from the Powhatan Confederacy killed about 374 colonists in Virginia. Killing almost a quarter of the population in Virginia. -
Founded in 1628, 1000 Puritan refugees moved to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. -
Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England. -
In 1679, Nathaniel Bacon created an army of colonists and indentured servants to rebel against the governor. Bacon wanted more land for tobacco production, but that meant taking Native American land. The governor said they were not allowed to take the land so out of spite the army burned Jamestown to the ground. -
This war was fought between England and France over who had control over the fur trade in the New World. This war is the first war in the French and Indian war to take place. -
In the Salem Witch Trials over 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft or being involved in witchcraft in some way. The two girls who started the witchcraft rumors were never given a punishment. In the end 20 people died in various ways.