| A | B |
|---|
| profit | money left over after paying the costs of doing business |
| charter | a legal paper that gives permission to explore or settle land |
| pilgrim | a person who makes a journey for religious reasons |
| represent | to speak or act in another's name |
| joint-stock company | a business owned by many people |
| John Cabot | claimed northeast coast of North America for England |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | wealthy Englishman who sent colonists to start the colony of Roanoke |
| Jamestown | first permanent English Settlement (1607) |
| John Smith | Jamestown leader who saved the colony and traded with the Algonquin |
| Pocahontas | Native American girl who saved John Smith's life |
| John Rolfe | improved growing of tobacco for cash crop - married Pocahontas |
| Virginia Dare | first European to be born in America |
| cash crop | crop grown to be sold for profit |
| Henry Hudson | first sailed for England looking for Northwest Passage |
