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Roanoke Island
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Spanish Armada defeated
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Jamestown
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Tobacco saves the colony
by 1616, the Virginia Company had spent more than 50,000 English pounds--an immense sum for that time. -
Colonists can own land
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House of Burgesses meets
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Dutch bring Africans
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Virginia Company sends women
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King James declares Royal Colony
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Bacon's Rebellion
Whhen Berkely protested, Bacon marched his armed followers to Jamestown in a revolt called Bacon's Rebellion. In September 1676, they drove out the governor and burned the town.