| A | B |
| investor | people who put money up for a business |
| profit | money made by a business after all expenses are payed |
| life expectancy | # of years you are expected to live |
| indentured servant | person who signed an agreement to work 1-5 yrs. for free passage |
| plantation | a large farm |
| House of Burgesses | law making group |
| representative | a person who speaks for a group |
| rebel | one who uses violence to fight the government |
| slavery | system where people are made to work without pay for masters |
| export | a crop sent overseas for sale |
| cash crop | product grown for sale |
| Virginia Company | group of investors that payed for Jamestown to be settled |
| Jamestown | English settlement near Chesapeake Bay, Virginia |
| Tobacco | main plantation crop |
| John Rolfe | settler in Virginia, brought tobacco |