Early Virginia AP US History

Roanoke (1585)

Jamestown, Virginia (1607)

The Starving Time (1609-1610)

Almost 90% of the colonists died

“The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced residents to do the unthinkable. A recent excavation at the historic site discovered the carcasses of dogs, cats and horses consumed during the season commonly called the “Starving Time.” But a few other newly discovered bones in particular, though, tell a far more gruesome story: the dismemberment and cannibalization of a 14-year-old English girl.”

Smithsonian Magazine

John Smith

Pocahontas

HEADRIGHT SYSTEM: a grant of land for settling in VA

INDENTURED SERVITUDE: a contract in which a poor Englishman/woman agreed to work for a colonist (who paid their passage to Virginia) for a period of 4-7 years. The colonist received the indentured servant’s headright of 50 acres FREEDOM DUES: the land, seed and tools given to an indentured servant after they completed their service

Indian Massacre of 1622

“Seasoning” Diseases spread rapidly in the heat of the Virginia summer. Those did not die of sickness were said to have survived the “seasoning” time

Common diseases were • Yellow fever • Smallpox • Measles • Plague • Malaria

Scots-Irish

House of Burgesses (1619)

Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore

Maryland

“The Chesapeake” = VA + MA

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

Causes: •  ↓ Tobacco prices •  ↑ cost of manufactured goods •  Poor weather •  English-Dutch war

Events: •  Bacon attacked friendly Native

Americans with popular support. •  Gov. Berkeley went after Bacon •  Bacon and his mob attack the capital,

Jamestown and eventually burn it •  Gov. Berkeley regains control •  Bacon dies of disease and his

followers are hanged.