Jamestown: The Virginia Company, a joint-stock company, received a charter from King James I in 1606 with the intention of establishing a settlement in the New World. The charter of the Virginia Company granted colonists the same rights as Englishmen in England. On May 24, 1607, 105 English settlers, all men, landed to found Jamestown. Jamestown, named in honor of King James I, became the English settlement in the New World. Virginia was founded to provide and expand a market for trade, profit from land sales, and grant English territorial claims to America. Jamestown became a successful tobacco manufacturing and shipping colony. Mayflower Compact, Plymouth, Pilgrims, Puritans, Calvinism: The Mayflower Compact was an agreement made by the Pilgrims in 1620 when they landed in Plymouth. The Covenant formed a crude government under James I based on the general will. The compact was crucial in the early organization of Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims were the original group of Puritan separatists who fled religious persecution in England and found refuge in the New World. The pilgrims wanted a place to worship their religion. The Pilgrims reached the New World in 1620 where they founded the Plymouth Colony and structured a government based on the Mayflower Compact. The Puritans and the Pilgrims were very similar in many beliefs and practices, but the Pilgrims were a group of Puritans who wanted complete separation from the Church. The Puritans were influenced to purify the Church. It was for this reason that they fled England. The Puritan colonies were based on the teachings of John Calvin, leader of the Protestant Reformation. Calvinism emphasized predestination, the belief in a person's afterlife... middle of paper... and began to attack and drive out all the Indians from the colony. Berkeley decided that Bacon's actions were extreme and called him back. Bacon's forces then rebelled against the government, pursuing Berkeley from Jamestown and burning it. In the midst of the rebellion, Bacon suddenly died of illness. Berkeley immediately crushed the rebellion with cruelty and hunted down the rebels. Bacon's legacy lived on, giving the irritated poor ideas for starting a rebellion. As a result of Bacon's Rebellion the colonists adopted slavery as their primary source of labor. The revolt occurred because many of Virginia's indentured servants were unhappy with the way they were treated. The rebellion demonstrated to the aristocracy that it needed a more compliant and easier to control workforce for fear of a new rebellion. So they invested in slavery.