Virginia

The first known European settlement in Virginia was erected by Spanish missionaries in 1570; it lasted only weeks before being destroyed by Native American attacks.

In 1584, the first effort by the English to establish a permanent colony was made at Roanoke Island, which was then considered to be part of Virginia.

It was the tenth State to enter the Union.

1. The Scotch Irish Protestants in Northern Ireland had created the Palisade to keep the Catholics from destroying their village. The Jamestown settlers created a palisade to protect them from the Indians. They started out with a defense against the Indians.

2. Captain John Smith organized them using the Biblical quotation, "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." He then assigned them to various jobs. They followed Biblical principles, had division of labor, and a Calvinist work ethic.

3. They established a House of Burgesses. They set up a government and solved their own problems. While they started out with English law, they modified it as the situation demanded.

The crop that most helped the Virginia colony was tobacco. This was also the main reason why most settlers settled in this colony.

On 25 June 1788.

yes Jamestown colony used cannibalism because the harsh winter came and they had no crops for food. They relied on trade with Indians and the Indians ceased the trade due to some conflict. they dug up people from underground and ate their bones.

There village was located on a swampy peninsula where insects thrived in warm weather. During the first summer, many colonist caught diseases, such as malaria and died.

They shared what is now called Virginia with other Algonguian speaking Native-Americans like the Pamunkey, Mattaponi and Chickahominy however their villages were generally close to the Chesapeake Bay. Southern and western Virginia was also the home of the Irioquois and the Sioux in the west.

One thing that was true about both the Virginia and Maryland colonies was that they both grew quickly after difficult starts.

In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the area of Roanoke Island. He named the land Virginia, in honor of Queen Elizabeth, known as The Virgin Queen. The following year, Raleigh established a colony on Roanoke but it did not survive. It became known as the Lost Colony. In 1607, the first permanent English settlement in America was founded in Jamestown, Virginia. MrV In the 1580's, a group that included Sir Humphry Gilbert and his younger half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh promoted a scheme to establish outposts that could trade with the Indians and also provide bases for attacks on Spain. Approving the idea, Queen Elizabeth I authorized Raleigh and Gilbert to Colonize North America. After two preliminary expeditions in 1587, Raleigh sent 117 colonists to the territory he named Virginia for Queen Elizabeth, the "Virgin Queen". They established a settlement on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina, but in 1590 a resupply ship could not find them. The colonists had vanished. The only remnince of the colonists found on the settlement was the word CROATOAN on a nearby tree.(S.Menzel)

No one. Jamestown was founded in 1607 and was reorganized by John Smith in 1608. Well, less reorganized than increased the discipline of the colonists so that they'd actually work to keep themselves from failing.

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Virginia was a British colony. Its name came from the (supposedly) virgin Queen Elizabeth I.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was known for holding intense bum fights. He would travel from town to town looking for bums, matching them up in fights. The fights often lasted 2 5 minute rounds. The prize usually was a shiny nickel. Though, when he could get women to fight, it would just end with a roll in the hay.

Did you know that Jamestown which is located in Virginia was the first permanent settlement in the colonies? It became a state in June 25, 1788. One colonist named John Rolfie found a way to cure dry leaves for export to Europe. Later, he married Pocahontas in 1614, after she was kidnapped by the colonists. Then Pocahontas took sail for Europe and called herself Rebecca Rolfie. She died of a fever in 1617.Did you know that the first peanuts in America were planted in America.

Founding:

In 1607 the English lead by John Smith founded Virginia and named it after Queen Elizabeth 1, the Virgin Queen. The settlers' job was to explore, build settlements, and convert Native Americans into Christianity. Instead when they arrived they were nice but they were nice because they would force the Native Americans off their lands. Its job was also to gain wealth in Virginia. It was the first permanent settlement in America. It also provided fertile land and wealth to England in the form of a cash crop called Tobacco.

because they wanted new land, new oprotunites , and new jobs

the James town people and there whales in the ocean and there pet dinsours and fishes

The major bodies of water in Virginia include the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Gathright Dam, John H. Kerr Reservoir, John W. Flannagan, Pond Lake, and Philpott Lake. The bordering bodies of water are the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay.

They were the ships that contained the people who would found the fort at Jamestown Island.

Over time, the region quickly became well known for its high slave population and highly stratified social class distinction.

When it was established in 1607 it was a military style of organization. The 104 men were sent by investors to make them money on the investment of sending them to VA. This was not suppose to develop into a colony. The men established the fort in an Native American empire of 14,000 and built on the worse land in the area. Within six months only 34 men were still alive. It wasn't until the introduction of tobacco by Rolfe that the colony became a viable growing town.

The Battle of Williamsburg was fought on May 5,1862, during the early stage of the Peninsular Campaign.

A Confederate force of 31,800 men, occupying a strong position some miles east of Williamsburg, managed to repeal the attack against its center brought by two Federal divisions and retired unharmed that night up to the Peninsula,

succeeding to avoid of being encircled by an outflanking movement led by a third Union division.

The successful delaying action was so effective to further convince McClellan he was facing a superior Confederate army and made him therefore to resume his advance toward Richmond in an overcautious way which allowed the Confederates to gain more precious time.

The main religions in colonial America include...

Christianity

Protestant

Judism

Puritan

Quaker and

Separatist

It was swamp water, either very salty or slimy and dirty