Jamestown

By J Shaffer

  • Start of Settlement

    104 englishmen arrived in America and started the settlement known as Jamestown.

  • Fire in Jamestown

    Fire in Jamestown
    A fire breaks out in the colony and it is very destructive. It burns the first church in Jamestown.

  • Gates for Governor

    Gates becomes the governor of Jamestown and this opened up many things for the conlony.

  • Pocahontas captured

    Pocahontas captured
    Pocahontas is captured by English settlers and held hostage in an attempt to recover settlers taken prisoner by Pocahontas' father, Powhatan.

  • Rolfe and Pocahontas married

    After a year Pocahontas and Rolfe get married and this led to them traveling to England.

  • Arrival of Africans

    This was the year that the first Africans arrived in Jamestown and this was important because of the start of slavery in America

  • Native raids

    Native raids
    Pamunkey Indians, scared by the rapid growth of the Jamestown colony, attack the English settlement, killing 347 people. Harsh raids lead to the deaths of a far greater number of Native Americans.