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| Christopher Newport | the captain of the 1606 voyage of three ships that sailed down the Thames River |
| Jamestown | the settlement on the James River, the first permanent English settlement in North America |
| John Smith | the colonist who took charge of Jamestown in 1608 |
| Pocahontas | the daughter of chief Powhatan; she saved John Smith's life |
| road map | a map that shows towns and cities-and the roads that connect them |
| interstate highways | big roads with two or more lanes in each direction. They run between two or more states. |
| Lord De La Warr | the governor of the Jamestown colony from 1610-1611 |
| Thomas Dale | governor of Jamestown in 1611 and from 1614 to 1616. He made good decisions that helped the colony to prosper. |
| Henrico | the second English settlement in Virginia, near present-day Richmond |
| cash crop | a crop that is grown to sell for money |
| John Rolfe | a colonist who in 1612 got seeds of tobacco from the Caribbean islands--this tobacco was milder and sweeter than the tobacco previously grown in Virginia |
