| A | B |
| Bay | A body of water that is partly surrounded by land. |
| Coastal Plain | An area of flat land along the coast. |
| Slavery | The practice of one person owning another |
| Living history museum | A place where people talk, dress, and do things as they did long ago. |
| Colony | A place that is ruled by another country |
| Colonist | Someone who lives in a colony |
| famine | starving, hunger |
| time line | A strip marked off evenly in periods that show events in the order they happened. |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Chief Powhattan who helped the English colony of Jamestown survive. |
| John Rolfe | Leader of Jamestown who grew a new kind of tobacco. |
| John Smith | Colonial leader in Virginia who helped Jamestown survive. |
| Powhattan | Chief of Powhattan tribe who lived on Chesapeake Bay near Jamesatown. |
| Jamestown Settlement | English community started in 1607, and named after King James. |