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Jamestown- In December of 1606 three ships were sent on a journey to Virginia to start founding a new settlement in North America. They named it Jamestown for their king James I. The settlement fort was pretty much complete on June 15. The settlement experienced drought, war, disease, and much more.

Bacon rebellions occurred in 1676 and ended in 1677. It took place in Virginia and the cause for this rebellion is because governor William Berkeley, refused to retaliate against native Americans who had attacked settlements on the frontier lines. Also he refused to move into the Indians territory when many pushed

Opechancanough’s tribe had planned a very well-coordinated attack on the English settlements. The chief grew frustrated with the English intrusion on the Powhatan lands. With warning from the Powhatan boy living with the English, Jamestown escaped an attack from the Opechancanough’s tribe. Although, about 400 out of the 1,200 settlers were killed . The Powhatan Indians withdrew from the English settlers shortly after the attack so the English could learn their lesson or just leave the colony. The next decade was nothing but fighting between the two people. They finally came to peace in 1632.

This was the very first settlement of the English people in the New World. It was the start of the first permanent colony.

Jamestown was the first successful permanent British settlement in the new world. Jamestown was part of the Virginia Joint Stock Company. When Jamestown was first found the colony almost didn’t survive due to harsh conditions and a lack of fresh water due to its swampy conditions. The colony’s original goal was to find gold

Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia 1676 was led by a man named Nathaniel Bacon. During this time Sir William Berkeley, was the governor of colonial Virginia. For over three decades Berkeley ran a corrupt regime of the colony’s wealthiest tobacco planters. Sir William Berkeley would reward his followers with land grants. As tobacco spread he took away his followers land because it got too expensive. HIs followers no option but to move to the frontier. By 1670 there was many whites that were in poverty. The whites then tried to settle in areas that were reserved only for indians but were denied by Sir William Berkeley and that infuriated them causing a series of Indian massacres. Bacon’s rebellion was more about the conflict with Virginia but now

The Great Awakening was a revival of religious freedom. The central idea of this was having an internal emotional experience that brings one to God. George Whitefield arrived in Philadelphia in 1739. He was an Anglican Minister who was influenced by Methodism and he

Albany Plan- This plan called for the colonies to unite with the fear of the French and Native Americans threats. Benjamin Franklin created the Albany Plan during the French and Indian War in 1754 in Albany, New York where several colonial delegates gathered. This plan was ultimately rejected by the colonies because they feared of losing too much power. The Crown was also not an advocate of this plan as they feared too much cooperation among the colonies.

Albany Congress: British-summoned inter-colonial congress to New York in 1754 during the Seven Years War; summoned to win Iroquois support

The Albany Plan was a plan proposed in 1754 by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian War at a delegation meeting in Albany, New York. He basically proposed for all thirteen of the colonies to come together in unity for the militaristic purpose of facing the threats of the French and Native Americans, as well as for economic and other purposes; the plan was shot down by the colonies and by Britain.

Albany Congress: Inter Continental Congress that was assembled in 1754 and its purpose was to achieve greater colonial unity

In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon and other virginia settlers led an attack on the Governor Berkeley. This was later known as Bacon’s rebellion. The settlers on the western side of America were having trouble with the Native American’s because of them going into the Native Americans land. Governor Berkeley did not want the settlers to attack the Natives and strictly told them not too. But Bacon wanted to fight the Natives and led attacks on them and caused much trouble and went against the Governor's word.

The most devastating war between the colonists and Indians took place in New England in 1676 and ended in 1676. Metacomet, also known as King Philip, was the son of Chief Massasoit, who was a principal leader of the Wampanoag in the early 1600’s; a tribe in North America that existed in America long before the Europeans arrived. He is also known as Metacom, Metacomet or Pometacom, names that he was given by the Wampanoag tribe.

During the early 1600’s in England, citizens were required by law to attend Anglican Church. The problem with this was that many people did not agree with Anglican practices. This group is referred to as Puritans or Separatists. Both of these groups thought that the Anglican Church needed to be purified, but Separatists believed in completely leaving the church and practicing within a new one. The Separatists faced major persecution and many decided to leave England for America. The religious dissension in Europe directly caused Protestants and Catholics to settle in America in an action and result manner. Europeans took action to prosecute Christians, therefore resulting in their relocation to America.

Contrary to popular belief and the amount of information distributed in history textbooks the English colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 was not the first permanent colony established by the English (Loewen 72). In May 1607, 105 men, plus the crew of the ships, came ashore on the banks of the James River in what is now known as the Commonwealth of Virginia to settle what was to be known as Jamestown (Dabney 1-5). These settlers came to the New World aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery (Dabney 1). In