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| Chesapeake Bay | A long arm of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. |
| Chief Powhatan | Chief of the Powhatan who helped the English settlement at Jamestown. |
| Stock | Shares of ownership in a company. |
| Jamestown | A town in southeastern Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607. |
| John Smith | English army captain whose strict discipline helped the Jamestown settlement survive. |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Chief Powhatan whose marriage to John Rolfe led to a peaceful time from 1614-1617. |
| John Rolfe | Jamestown leader whose method of curing tobacco made it a successful cash crop. |
| Cash Crop | A crop that is grown to be sold for profit. |
| Indentured Servent | A person who agreed to work for someone in colonial America for a fixed amount of time in order to pay for the ocean voyage. |
| House of Burgesses | The lawmaking body at colonial Virginia. |
| Openchancanough | Powhatan chief who led one of that last major Native American battles against the English in Virginia in 1622. |
