. Bill Nye's history of the United States. co now proceeded to become acurse to the civilized world. In 1624, King James, fearing that the infantcolony would go Democratic, appointed a rump The oppression of the English parliament nowbegan to be felt. The colonists were obliged toship their products to England and to use onlyEnglish vessels. The Assembly, largely royalists,refused to go out when their terms of office ex-pired, paid themselves at the rate of about thirty-six dollars per day as money is now, and, in fact,acted like members of the Legislaturegenerally. In 1676, one hundred years
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. co now proceeded to become acurse to the civilized world. In 1624, King James, fearing that the infantcolony would go Democratic, appointed a rump The oppression of the English parliament nowbegan to be felt. The colonists were obliged toship their products to England and to use onlyEnglish vessels. The Assembly, largely royalists,refused to go out when their terms of office ex-pired, paid themselves at the rate of about thirty-six dollars per day as money is now, and, in fact,acted like members of the Legislaturegenerally. In 1676, one hundred years before theColonies declared themselves free andindependent, a rebellion, under the man-agement of a bright youngattorney named Bacon, visitedJamestown and burned theAmerican metropolis, afterwhich Governor Berkeley wasdriven out. Bacon died justas his rebellion was beginningto pay, and the people dis-persed. Berkeley then took con-trol, and killed so many rebels thatMrs. Berkeley had to do her own work,and Berkeley, who had no one left to. JAMESTOWN LEGISLATOR, 46 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. help him but his friends, had to stack his owngrain that fall and do the chores at the barn. Jamestown is now no more. It was succeededin 1885 by Jamestown, North Dakota, now calledJimtown, a prosperous place in the rich farming-lands of that State. Jamestown the first, the scene of so many sor-rows and little jealousies, so many midnightIndian attacks and bilious attacks by day, becamea solemn ruin, and a few shattered tombstones,over which the jimson-weed and the wild vinesclamber, show to the curious traveller the placewhere civilization first sought to establish itselfon the James River, The author wishes to refer with great gratitude to information con-tained in the foregoing chapter and obtained from the following works: The Indian and other Animalcula. By N. K. Boswell, Laramie City,Wyoming. How to Jolly the Red Man out of his Lands. By Ernest Smith. The Female Red Man and h
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