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Colonial History
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Founding of Jamestown
History of Jamestown Identify the characteristics of the population that founded Jamestown. -
Africans brought to Jamestown
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Africans in Jamestown numbered only about 2,000 in Virginia-only about 7% of the total population of the South.
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Frustrated Freemen and Bacon's Rebellion
In 1676, about 1,000 Virginians broke out of control - led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. They fiercely resented Virginia's Governor William Berkeley for his friendly policies towards the Indians. When Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of savage Indian attacks on frontier settlements (due to his monopolization of the fur trading with them), the crowd took matters into their own hands. The crowd murderously attacked Indians and chased Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia. Th
